Medium sized, 2-3 m tall shrub, with pubescent young shoots. Leaves with 1-5 cm long, hispid to glabrate petiole; lamina ovate, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, 3-16 cm long, 1.5-10 cm broad, serrate, scabrous, hairy to glabrescent on both sides, acuminate-caudate; stipules linear lanceolate, 10-12 mm long, densely tomentose, acuminate. Inflorescence of many flowered subsessile or sessile flower clusters in axils of leaf scars of fallen leaves. Flowers minute, bracteolate. Calyx hairy outside, 1.5-2 mm long. Stamens 4, inflexed in bud. Ovary ovate, c. 1 mm long. Stigma exserted. Achenes ovoid, 1.5-2 mm long, enveloped by persistent slightly fleshy calyx and bracteoles.

Fl.Per.: March-August.

Type: Described from Japan (UPS).

Distribution: Japan, China, Indo-china, Burma, Northern India (Eastern Himalayas to N.W.Himalayas) and Northern Pakistan (N.W.F.Province, Kashmir, Punjab).