Japan Flora: Small tree with densely appressed-pilose elongate branches; leaves narrowly ovate-oblong to broadly lanceolate, 7-15 cm. long, 1.5-5 cm. wide, gradually acuminate, obliquely cordate at base, obtusely serrulate, scaberulous and appressed short-hairy above, white and densely silky-pubescent beneath, palmately 3- to 5-nerved, the petioles 8-12 mm. long; cymes longer or shorter than the petioles, rather many-flowered; fruit ovoid-globose, black, 3-4 mm. across.

Kyushu (lowlands in Yakushima and Tanegashima). Ryukyus, Formosa, s. China to India, Malaysia, and Australia.