Japanese name: コゴメウツギ（小米空木） Scientific name:Neillia incisa var. incisa
[Overview]
A deciduous shrub about 2.5 m tall, found in secondary forests and logged areas.
Young branches are slender, softly hairy, reddish brown and much branched.
Leaves are simple and alternate, triangular-ovate, 2–6 cm long and 1.5–3.5 cm wide, and pinnately lobed.
There are 3–7 pairs of lateral veins.
The veins on the underside are hairy.
The leaf margin is doubly serrated.
Panicles to corymbs 2–6 cm long arise from the stem tips or leaf axils and bear many cream-colored five-petaled flowers 4–5 mm across.
The fruit is a globose follicle 2–3 mm long, with the calyx remaining at the base.
[Notes]
The Japanese name is said to compare the small white flowers to broken rice (kogome).
