Shrubs or trees, ?± erect?, 25–60 dm. Stems: twigs: new growth ?greenish red young?, sparsely pilose, 1-year old deep to reddish brown, shiny, older orange-brown overlaid with gray; ?bark on 2–5 cm thick branches orange-brown?; thorns on twigs ?few to numerous?, ± straight to strongly recurved, slender, 3–7 cm, 2-years old blackish brown. Leaves: petiole 1–2 cm, sparsely hairy young, sparsely glandular; blade ± ovate to broadly elliptic, 3–6 cm, thin, base broadly cuneate, lobes 3 or 4 per side, ?max LII ca. 15%?, lobe apex acute to ± rounded, margins serrate, ?teeth numerous, small, gland-tipped when young?, veins 3 or 4 per side, apex acute, ?shiny?, abaxial surface glabrate, some axils of midvein pilose, adaxial appressed-hairy. Inflorescences 5–15-flowered; branches sparsely to moderately or densely pilose; bracteoles ?pale brownish?, margins nearly eglandular, minutely short, delicately stipulate-glandular. Flowers 15–18 mm diam.; hypanthium glabrous; sepals ?± anthocyanic?, triangular, length not recorded, margins finely glandular-serrate, abaxially glabrous, ?adaxially pilose?; stamens 10, anthers white; styles 3–5. Pomes ?on pendulous branches?, burgundy (Aug–early Sep), black (late Sep), glossy, ellipsoid, 7–10 mm diam., glabrous; sepals spreading, wide, 3–4 mm, ?apex ± acuminate?; pyrenes 3–5, sides ± irregularly pitted or scarred.
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