Japan Flora: Branches stout, glabrous or nearly so; leaves coriaceous, oblanceolate to obovate-oblong, sometimes oblong, 8-16 cm. long, 3-7 cm. wide, acute with an obtuse tip, acute at base, glabrous except the ascending pubescence on midrib beneath and on petioles while young, lustrous above, obsoletely scaly and somewhat brownish beneath, with 10 to 12 pairs of lateral nerves, the petioles 1.5-3 cm. long; staminate aments linear, erect; nuts narrowly ovoid to oblong, 2-2.5 cm. long, the involucre shallow, with small imbricate scales.  June. 

Honshu (s. Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus.