Japan Flora: Large erect shrub, the branches dark brown or gray brown, terete, short-puberulent while young; leaves elliptic, obovate-elliptic, or broadly ovate, 3-5 (-8) cm. long, 2-3 (-4.5) cm. wide, acute to subobtuse, acute or rarely subrounded at base, entire, puberulent on midrib on upper side, spreading coarse-hairy beneath, the petioles 1-3 mm. long; racemes elongate, 3-7 cm. long, terminal on new shoots, rather densely many-flowered, the bracts narrowly ovate to lanceolate, the pedicels 3-4 mm. long, puberulent; berries globose, black, bloomy, 5-7 mm. in diameter. Honshu (Tango, Suwo, and Nagato Prov.), Kyushu.