Shrubs, ?sprawling?, 0.5(–1.5) m. Stems erect, becoming suberect, ascending, wide-spreading; branches spiraled, ?dense?, maroon, ?stiff, minutely verruculose?, initially densely pilose or villose-strigose, later sparsely so. Leaves persistent; petiole 1–2 mm, tomentose; blade narrowly elliptic, sometimes lance-elliptic, rarely lanceolate, 5–11 x 2–6 mm, coriaceous, base narrowly cuneate, margins slightly revolute, veins 2–4, slightly sunken, apex acute or obtuse ?with long mucro?, abaxial surfaces grayish white-tomentose, adaxial dark green, shiny, not glaucous, minutely rugose and verruculose, flat between lateral veins, initially pilose-strigose, soon glabrate. Inflorescences on fertile shoots 10–20 mm with 4 leaves, 1(–3)-flowered. Pedicels 1–3 mm, tomentose. Flowers ?erect?, 7–8 mm diam.; buds white; hypanthium funnelform, densely villous, becoming glabrate; sepals: margins villous, apex cuspidate or acuminate, surfaces tomentose; petals spreading, white, glabrous or hairy; stamens 20, filaments white, anthers purple; styles 2. Pomes bright red, sometimes tinged crimson or cherry, globose, subglobose, or depressed-globose, 6–7 x 5–8 mm, shiny, not glaucous, sparsely villous; sepals suberect or erect as coronet, villous to sparsely so; navel open ?with pyrenes exserted?; style remnants at apex. Pyrenes 2. 2n = 68 (Germany).
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