Japan Flora: Shrub with the slender branches soft-pubescent while young; leaves pinnate, the stipules per­sistent, those under the inflorescence larger, flabellate, toolhed, 1-2 cm. long and as wide, the petioles 1-3 cm. long, loosely soft-pubescent, often becoming glabrous, the leaflets 7-9(-11), the upper ones larger, oblong to narrowly obovate-oblong, 2-5.5 cm. long, 1-2.5 cm. wide, usually obtuse, sometimes rounded or acute, toothed on upper half, glabrous or nearly so above, glaucous to white and often with yellowish brown pubescence beneath, mixed with white hairs on midrib, the rachis usually pubescent; inflorescence 5-8 cm. long, rather many-flowered, often nodding, glabrous to slightly sof(-pubes­cent; flowers creamy white, 5-8 mm. across; calyx-teeth del­toid, inflexed in fruit; petals as long as the stamens, 4-5 mm. long, reflexed, nearly orbicular, short-clawed; styles 2-4, slighdy white-pubcscen< near the base or glabrescent; fruit red, ellipsoidal or globose, 7-10 mm. long. Apr.-June. Mountains.

Honshu (Kantd Distr. and westw.), Shikoku, Kyushu.