Japan Flora: Large shrub, the branches slender, dark brown, with scattered pale brown ascending hairs while young; leaves simple, membranous, obovate, 8-15 cm. long, abruptly and broadly caudate and short-awned, acute and often decur­rent to the petiole at base, coarsely deltoid- or undulate-toothed, with scattered multicellular hairs on upper side, pale green and with ascending pubescence on nerves and with axillary tufts of hairs beneath, the lateral nerves 7-10 pairs, ending in awns of the teeth, the petioles 1-1.5 cm. long; inflorescence narrowly pyramidal, nodding, 10-15 cm. long, 5-10 cm. across, acute at apex, short-pubescent, the rachis slender, more or less flexuous; flowers short-pedicelled, about 4 mm. across, yellow; sepals obtusely deltoid; petals orbicular, 2.5-3 mm. long; perfect stamens 2; fruit obliquely globose, about 4 mm. across, dark purple. May-June. Thickets and woods in mountains.

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu; rather common.