Japan Flora: Japan Flora:Dwarf deciduous scarcely branched glabrous subshrub, 2-5 cm. high, with long-creeping subterranean branches; leaves chartaceous to submembranous, broadly ovate, broadly elliptic, or obovate- orbicular, 3-6 cm. long, 3-5 cm. wide, rounded to acute, serrulate, often loosely pilose on margin and on nerves beneath; flowers 1-3, terminal, puberulent, the bracts and bracteoles herbaceous, the pedicels rather short; corolla campanulate, 5-6 mm. long, white to reddish; berries globose, about 1 cm. in diameter, red, the receptacles 4-5 mm. across. June-July. Coniferous woods;

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. and n. distr.); rare. Kuriles, Sakhalin, Kamchatka, Amur, and Ussuri.