Japan Flora: Evergreen tree; branches with scattered short appressed hairs while young; leaves coriaceous, narrowly ovate-oblong, rarely broadly  lanceolate, 8-15 cm. long, (2-) 2.5-5 cm. wide, glabrous (young leaves appressed white-pubescent), caudate, glaucous beneath, the mid rib 3-parted near base, the petioles 15-20 mm. long; inflorescence much shorter than the leaves, rather densely appressed white-hairy; perianth-segments about 5 mm. long, oblong, appressed-puberulent on both sides. May-June. Planted in warmer districts.

Ryukyus (?).