Japan Flora: Scandent evergreen much branched shrub, the branchlets and petioles red-brown pubescent; leaves narrowly to broadly ovate, 1-5 cm. long, 1-2 cm. wide, subacute with an obtuse tip, subrounded at base, often loosely soft-pubescent above while young, brownish spreading-puberulent on the nerves especially beneath, the lateral nerves 5 to 6 pairs, arcuate short of the margin, the veinlets prominent beneath, the petioles 5-10 mm. long; receptacles globose, 15-17 mm. across. Warmer parts;

Honshu (w. Kanto Distr. and westw.), Shi-koku, Kyushu. Ryukyus.