Yatabe's lady's-slipper

Family Orchidaceae. In the Far East, in forests, predominantly birch (from the stone birch), this ornamental plant can be encountered. In Russia its range is very limited; it occupies Kamchatka, the Commander and Kuril Islands.

A species related to the spotted lady's-slipper. A small plant (up to 40 cm tall) with a long creeping rhizome. Stem with 2 (rarely 3) almost opposite leaves, ovate, up to 15 cm long, acute, hairy along the veins and at the margin on the underside. Bract ovate, up to 3 cm long. Flower solitary; the lateral perianth segments, as in the spotted lady's-slipper, are obtuse. The dorsal perianth segment is broadly oval, slightly pubescent on the outer surface and along the margins, up to 2.5 cm long, yellowish-green. The lateral segments are fiddle-shaped, narrowed above and widened at the end, yellowish-green (less often whitish) with dirty purple spots, up to 1.9 cm long. The labellum is brownish- or greenish-yellow or dirty-purple and indistinctly spotted. The staminode is orange-yellow, short and broad. The ovary is densely glandular-hairy. Flowers in July - August.