Japan Flora: Small evergreen tree with slender, terete, gray-brown branches, the branchlets yellow-brown pilose; leaves narrowly ovate to broadly lanceolate, 4-6(-8) cm. long, 1.5-2.5(-3) cm. wide, caudate, mucronate, acute or sometimes rounded at base, deep green and lustrous with the midrib puberulent on upper side, slightly paler and appressed-hairy beneath while young, undulate-toothed, the petioles 2-4 mm. long; inflorescence spicate, 1-3 cm. long, densely yellow-brown pilose; flowers 10-15, sessile, about 4 mm. across, the bracts and bracteoles broadly deltoid, as long as the calyx-tube; calyx­teeth elliptic, 0.7 mm. long; fruit broadly obovoid-ellipsoidal, 5-6 mm. long, black. Sept.-Oct.

Honshu (Kinki Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu, Ryukyus.