Japan Flora: Evergreen| branches dark gray-brown, pale yellow-brown villous, soon becoming glabrous; leaves coriaceous, obovate to broadly oblanceolate, 6-10 cm. long, 2-4 cm. wide, densely pale yellow- brown tomentose while young but later becoming glabrous beneath, reddish when dry, abruptly or short-acuminate, sparsely toothed or subentire, acute or subcuneate at base, the midrib impressed above, with 8-13 pairs of rather slender lateral nerves, the petioles 5-20 mm. long; stamens 10-20; fruiting involucres densely short-pubescent; nuts ellipsoidal, about 15 mm. long. May.

Honshu (Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikokuj Kyushu.