Japan Flora: Small much-branched tree with puberulent branches; leaves rather firm, lustrous, ob­liquely oblong, obovate or narrowly ovate, 2-5 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, obtuse to acute, obliquely obtuse at base, simply toothed, glabrous except puberulent on the midrib above, with 7 to 15 pairs of lateral nerves, the petioles 4-12 mm. long; samaras elliptic or nearly orbicular, short-pedicellate, glabrous, 8-13 mm. long, the seed near the center. Sept.

Honshu (centr. distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea, Formosa, and China.