Japan Flora: Tree with whitish peeling bark, the branchlets grayish or yellowish brown, scattered pilose while young; leaves broadly ovate, 4-7 cm. long, 3-5 cm. wide, short-acuminate, irregularly mucronate-toothed, rounded to broadly cuneate at base, smooth, slightly lustrous, soon becoming glabrous above, long- pilose on nerves beneath, the lateral nerves of 8 to 10 pairs, the petioles 5-15 mm. long, slightly pilose; fruiting aments ellipsoidal to subglobose, 25-3.5 cm. long, the scales 13-15 mm. long, the lobes narrowly lanceolate, obtuse, ciliolate, the lateral lobes ascending, 1/2-2/3 as long as the midlobe; nuts 3- 4 mm. long, broadly obovoid, with very narrow wings. Mountains;

Honshu (Kanto and centr. distr.); rare.