Japan Flora: Much-branched evergreen parasitic shrub, the branches and underside of leaves densely rusty-brown tomentose; leaves subopposite, thick and fragile, broadly ovate, obtuse, rounded at base, entire, stellate- hairy above while young, densely and persistently so beneath, with a rather prominent midrib beneath, the petioles 7-12 mm. long; inflorescence 2- to 7-flowered, short-pedunculate, the pedicels as long as the peduncles and ovary, rusty-brown villous; perianth about 3 cm. long, tubular, densely red-brown stellate-pubescent outside, black-purplish, glabrous and lustrous inside, the lobes 4, reflexed, oblanceolate, 8-10 mm. long; stamens exserted; fruit subglobose, red-brown. Sept.-Dec. Parasitic on broad-leaved evergreen trees;

Honshu (Kanto Distr. westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. s. Korea and Ryukyus.