Japan Flora: Deciduous shrub with densely brown-scaly young branchlets; leaves chartaceous to somewhat membranous, elliptic, ovate to ob¬long, 3-8.5 cm. long, 1.5-4 cm. wide, rather abruptly acumi¬nate with an obtuse tip (especially at flowering time), acute to rounded at base, loosely white-scaly or glabrous on upper side, densely white- and red-brown scaly beneath, the petioles 5-8 mm. long; flowers 1-3, usually solitary, axillary, the pedicels about 1 cm. long at anthesis, 1-3 cm. long in fruit, thickened in upper part, whitish scaly; calyx-tube abruptly constricted above the ovary，the lobes large, broadly ovate, 3-4 mm. long, acute or abruptly so; fruit ovoid-ellipsoid, about 1 cm. long. May-July. Mountains;

Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu.