Japan Flora: Erect dioecious shrub; leaves suborbicular, 3-4 cm. long, 3.5-5 cm. wide, truncate to slightly cordate, sparsely short-pilose especially beneath, 3- to 5-lobed, the lobes obtuse or subobtuse, irregularly toothed, the petioles 1-4 cm. long; flowers few, in axillary fascicles, the staminate cup-shaped, the pistillate ovoid, the pedicels short, bractless; calyx-limb extremely short, the lobes elliptic, re¬curved; petals minute; berry broadly ellipsoidal, red, 8-10 mm. long. Mar.-Apr.

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