Japan Flora: Shrub 20-40 cm. high, branches ascending to nearly erect, rather slender, grayish, slightly puberulent; leaves thin, sessile, oblique, oblanceolate or subobovate, 6-10 cm. long, 1-3 cm. wide, caudately acuminate, cuneate and obtuse at base, short-toothed, coarsely scattered-hairy above, paler and the nerves puberulent beneath; staminate glomerules cymose, pedunculate, the pistillate glomerules subsessile or short- peduncled, densely flowered; achenes minutely punctate. Woods;

Honshu (Izu Isis' Tokaido and s. Kinki Distr.), Shikoku, Kyushu. Ryukyus and China.