Japan Flora: Small tree with pale brown glabrous branches; leaves oblong, obovate-oblong, or narrowly elliptic, 10-20(-25) cm. long, 5-8(-10) cm. wide, abruptly acute to short-acuminate, acute to subrounded at base, mucronate-toothed, green and glabrous on upper side, except for scattered stellate hairs on the nerves, usually whitish and puberulent or nearly glabrous beneath, the nerves white-pubes­cent, the petioles 7-25 mm. long; panicles nodding, 10-20 cm. long, villous and white stellate-hairy; flowers nearly sessile, pendulous; calyx-teeth deltoid; corolla semi-expanding, 6-8 mm. long, the lobes oblanceolate, 6-8 mm. long; fruit narrowly obovoid, 7-8 mm. long, 10-ribbed, rather densely long-spread­ing yellow-hispid, the style base persistent. June. Moun­tains.

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu.