Japan Flora: Perennial suffrutescent herb with much-elongated procument or declined branches 30-50 cm. long, short- pubescent above; leaves membranous, ovate to lanceolate, 3-7 cm, long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, acute to acuminate, rounded to shallowly cordate at base, 3- to 5-nerved, entire, with appressed hairs on both sides or nearly glabrous, the petioles 1-3 mm. long; statninate flowers short-pedicellate, pilose; fruit ovoid, about 1 mm. long, the enveloping perianth with short white hairs especially above; stigma pilose. Sept.-Oct.

Honshu (Kii Prov. and Chugoku Distr.), Kyushu. China, Ryukyus, Formosa, Malaysia, and India.