Disporum flavens Kitagawa; D. sessile D. Don ex Schultes subsp. flavens (Kitagawa) Kitagawa; D. sessile var. pachyrrhizum Handel-Mazzetti.

Rhizome shortly creeping, 4--7 mm thick, with stolon 1--5 cm × 3--6 mm. Stem simple or branched distally, 20--80 cm. Petiole 5--10 mm; leaf blade broadly elliptic to oblong-ovate, 4--9 × 1--6.5 cm, glabrous, base subrounded to broadly cuneate, apex shortly acuminate to acute; Inflorescences terminal, 1--3-flowered; pedicels 3--5 mm. Flowers cylindric-campanulate. Tepals yellow, spatulate-oblanceolate to obovate, 2--3 cm × 5--10 mm, base gibbous-spurred; spurs 1--2 mm. Stamens 1.8--2.8 cm, nearly included; filaments 1.5--2 cm, minutely papillose proximally; anthers 4--8 mm. Ovary 4--5 mm. Style 1.5--2.3 cm. Berries blue-black, subglobose, 8--10 mm in diam. Fl. Mar--Jun, fr. Jul--Nov. 2 n = 16*.

Forests; 100--2500 m. Anhui, Hebei, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Shandong, Sichuan [Korea].