Japan Flora: branches dark purple-brown, much-branched, the branchlets, petioles, and undersides of leaves yellow-brown stellate-villous; leaves coriaceous, oblanceolate to broadly so, 5-12 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, abruptly acuminate, acute or sometimes obtuse at base, with acute short-awned teeth on upper margin, stellate-pubescent but soon glabrate and deep green above, the midrib impressed above, the lateral nerves 13 to 18 pairs, somewhat raised beneath, the petioles 5-15 mm. long; stamens 8-10; fruiting involucres short-villons; nuts ellipsoidal, about 2 cm. long. May.

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