Japan flora: Green glabrous shrubs with dichotomously forked dark-brown glabrous branches parasitic on deciduous trees; leaves nearly opposite, cuneate-lanceolate to oblong, 2-3.5 cm. long, 1-1.5 cm. wide, rounded at apex, narrowed at base, slightly nerved on both sides, glabrous, entire, the petiole 1-4 mm. long; spikes terminal on short branchlets, 3-4 cm. long, loosely several- to rather many-flowered; flowers sessile, the calyculus about 1 mm. long, subcampanulate, the sepals small, 4-6; fruit el-lipsoidal, 5-6 mm. long. July. Mountains;

Honshu (centr. and n. distr.); rare. s. Korea.