Japan Flora: Much branched evergreen tree, the branchlets with scurfy appressed hairs while young; leaves rather coriaceous, ovate-oblong, broadly lanceo­late or oblong, sometimes ovate, usually 5-10 cm. long, 2-3 cm. wide, long-acuminate, acute to subrounded at base, un- dulately toothed on upper margin, smooth, glabrous and deep green above, gray-brown to brownish beneath with appressed brownkh scales, the petioles 5-10 mm. long, soon becoming smooth; staminate aments 5-10 cm. long; pistillate aments on the upper part of the branches; fruiting involucre sub-globose, sessile, with small protuberances arranged in 1 or 2 series of transverse lines, densely soft grayish puberulent; nuts subglobose to ovoid-globose, 8-10 mm. in diameter. May-June. Warmer parts.

Honshu (Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Korea.