Japan Flora: Procumbent sparingly branched shrub, the branches rather stout, puberulent while young; leaves membranous, orbicular, 4-10 cm. in diameter, deeply 5-cleft, loosely glandu¬lar-hairy on the nerves beneath; inflorescence 5-10 cm. long, loosely 7- to 10-flowered, short-glandular, the bracts linear, very much shorter than the pedicels; flowers rotate, 5-6 mm. across, yellow-green; ovary densely glandular-pubescent; calyx¬limb extremely short, the lobes obovate-rounded, glabrous; berry glandular-hairy, broadly ellipsoidal, about 8 mm. long, dark red. June-July.

Hokkaido, Honshu (centr. distr.) Shikoku. Sakhalin.