Japan Flora: Shrub with rather stout, flat prickles and long spreading glandular hairs, the branches stout, elongate, slightly prickly, glandular-pilose while young and sometimes also short-pubescent, the flowering branchlets elongate, 20-40 cm. long; leaflets (3-) 5-7, membranous, narrowly ovate to broadly lanceolate, 4-8 cm. long, 1.5-4 cm. wide, acuminate, rounded to obtuse at base, doubly or irregularly acute-toothed, ascending-pubeģ“:ent on upper side especially on the nerves, glandular-pilose and often slightly spreading-pubescent on nerves beneath, the petioles glandular-pubescent and sparingly prickly; inflorescence a terminal leafy corymbose soft-pubescent panicle with glandular hairs; calyx 10-15 mm. long, the lobes lanceolate-deltoid, caudate, densely white-puberulent inside and on margin, reflexed in fruit; petals obovate or oblong, about 10 mm. long; fruit oblong, the fruitlets very many, glabrous; stones about 1.5 mm. long, pitted. May-June.
Honshu (Tokaido and Kinki Distr.), Shikoku, Kyushu. s. Korea, China, Formosa, (India ?)