Japan Flora: Deciduous shrub, the branchlets densely red-brown scaly and loosely stellate-pilose while young; leaves membran이is, ob¬long, obovate, oblanceolate or sometimes ovate-elliptic, 4-8 cm. long，1-4 cm. wide, obtuse to abruptly acuminate with an obtuse tip, with stellate hairs on upper side while young, densely white-scaly and with fulv이is-stelhte hairs especially on nerves near base beneath, the petioles 3-5 mm. long; flow¬ers 1 to 3 in axils, the pedicels 2.5-3 cm. long in fruit, with white and brown scales and pale stellate pubescence; calyx¬tube 6-8 mm. long, abruptly constricted above the ovary, with white-stellate hairs, the lobes broadly ovate, 3-4 mm. long; fruit brown-scaly, obovoid, 7-8 mm. long, abruptly narrowed to a stipelike base. Apr.-May.

Honshu (Tokai and Kinki Distr.), Shikoku.