Japan Flora: Glabrous, deciduous tree with rather stout grayish brown branchlets; leaves chartaceous, ovate or oblong, 8-13 cm. long, 3-4.5 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate and somewhat obtuse at tip, rounded to subacute at base, shallowly mucronate-toothed, yellowish green beneath, the costa impressed above, the vein- lets slightly raised beneath, the petioles 2-3 cm. long, reddish; cymes axillary, rather densely many-flowered, the peduncle 1-1.5 cm. long; pistillate flowers about 3.5 mm. across; petals and reduced stamens 6-8; drupe globose, short pedicellate, red, about 3 mm. across. May. Mountains. 

Honshu (Totomi, Mino, and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu.