Shrubs or trees, 50–60 dm, branches ± weeping. Stems: twigs: new growth densely tomentose, 1-year old dark gray, older gray, ?± stout?; thorns on twigs ?usually sparse or absent?, ± recurved, 1-year old dark blackish gray, slender, 2–3 cm. Leaves: petiole ?slender?, length 20–30% blade, pubescent, glandular; blade broadly oblong to cuneate, 2–3 cm (at anthesis, larger mature), ± thick, firm, base evenly tapered, lobes 0, margins crenate-serrate, veins 3–5 per side, ?adaxially shiny mature?, apex ± flattened to slightly cuspidate, abaxial surface pubescent only on veins, adaxial glabrate young. Inflorescences 3–6-flowered; branches tomentose; bracteoles linear, margins sessile-glandular, ?adaxially short-pubescent?. Flowers 20–25 mm diam.; hypanthium tomentose; sepals narrowly triangular, margins glandular-serrate, abaxially appressed-white-pubescent in center of laminae, edges glabrate; anthers yellow; styles 3–5. Pomes red ?often very glaucous on drying?, suborbicular to pyriform, 10–15 mm diam., glabrate; sepals spreading; pyrenes 3–5.
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