Japan Flora: Rhizomes short, with elongate roots; stems 50-100 cm. long, much branched above, erect, striate, angled, minutely scabrous when dried; cladodes 1-8 in a fascicle, linear, acute, straight, angled, 1-3.5 cm. long, deep green; flowers paired or solitary, 6-7 mm. long, tubular- campanulate, yellowish green, the pedicels jointed at or above the middle, &-9 mm. long; anthers narrowly ovate-lanceolate, mucronate, longer than the filaments; fruit red. May-June. Mountains.

Kyushu. Korea, Manchuria, Amur, and Ussuri.