Japan Flora: Large evergreen shrub with minute brown hairs while young; petioles 1-2 cm. long, the leaf-rachis short, the leaflets 1-3, alternate, sessile, narrowly oblong, 7-12 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. wide, obtuse to acute; panicles axillary, densely flowered; flowers small, short-pedicelled, 5-merous; petals about 3 mm. long; stamens 10, as long as the petals, glabrous; ovary glabrous.
Kyushn (southern distr., possibly not indigenous). s. China, India, Indochina, and Malaysia.