Japan Flora: Deciduous shrub with nearly glabrous branches; leaves rather thick-membranous, broadly oblanceolate to obo­vate, 4-13 cm. long, acuminate to rounded at apex, cuneate at base, with short mucronulate scattered teeth, slightly pu­berulous on both surfaces while young, the petioles 8-12 mm. long; pistillate flowers white, 3-7，clustered, about 0.7 mm. long, about 5 mm. across, on a short peduncle, the pedicels 3-8 mm. long; calyx-lobes triangular to semirounded, obtuse, ciliolate; fruit globose, red, about 6 mm. across. May-June. Wet places in mountains

Honshu (Hokuriku Distr. and north w.).