Japan Flora: Deciduous shrub; branchlets gray-brown, densely fulvous- scaly, with fulvous-stellate hairs while young; leaves mem¬branous, broadly lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 4-8 cm. long, 3.5 cm. wide, caudate-acuminate to acute with an obtuse tip, obtuse, rounded to subacute at base, stellate-pilose on up¬per side, densely white-scaly and loosely stellate-pilose beneath, the petioles 3-5 mm. long; flowers solitary, with pale yellow scales and stellate hairs; calyx-tube rather broad, abruptly con¬stricted above the ovary, about 7 mm. long, the lobes rounded- ovate, 4-5 mm. long, acute; fruit broadly ellipsoidal, small, 6-7 mm. long, the pedicels 2.5-4 cm. long, thinly stellate- pilose at first, later only with scales. May.

Honshu (Musashi, Kai and to Suruga Prov.); rare.