Small orchid with a very slender growth habit. Flowers measured to 3 mm diameter, yellowish-green, lip erect with green stripes, growing in a narrow raceme. Leaves alternate, clasp the stem, usually two, obovate, leaf measured at 22 mm long and 10 mm wide. Plant glabrous, stems square.

Habitat is wet coniferous woods.

Height is listed in Budd's Flora to 15 cm, we measured plants to 13 cm tall.

This plant is very rare, listed as an S1 by the Saskatchewan Conservation Data Centre.

Photos taken July 12th, wet black spruce woods, Nesbit Provincial Forest, about 350 km north of our home in Regina, SK.

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