Japan Flora: Stems 3-8 cm. long, with few appressed scales; racemes loosely 4- to 15-flowered, with minute, linear-lanceolate, acuminate bracts; staminate flowers about 2 mm. across, with 3 reduced carpels, the perianth glabrous, the segments broadly lanceo­late, acuminate; stamens 3, the anthers sessile, 2-locular; pistil­late flowers about 1.5 mm. across, with 6 ovate, acute, glabrous perianth-segments, the carpels numerous, the style attached above the middle on the ventral side, filiform, 0.8 mm. long, longer than the carpel; carpels about 0.7 mm. long, in a giobose head 1.5-2 mm. across. July-Sept.

Honshu (Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu; rare.