Japan Flora: Erect, divaricately branched dioecious shrub with branchlets often reduced to spines, the branches and branchlets purplish brown; leaves alternate or fasciculate on short spurs, obovate or ob­ovate-elliptic, 3-8 cm. long, 1-4 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate, cuneate at base, serrulate, appressed-puberulent on upper side when young, sparingly pubescent beneath especially on nerves, the petioles 5-20 mm. long, usually pubescent; pedicels 1-1.5 cm. long, fasciculate; flowers yellowish green, 5-6 mm. long; calyx-lobes 4, erect, acuminate； stamens 4, about 2/3 as long as the calyx-lobes; fruit obovoid-globose, glabrous, about 7 mm. across, with 2 or 3 stones. May.

Honshu (Chugoku Distr.), Kyushu. Korea and Manchuria.