Shrubs or trees, 50(–80) dm, branches strongly weeping. Stems: twigs: new growth pubescent, 1–2-years old gray or purple-gray, ?slender?; thorns on twigs straight, 1–2-years old purple-gray, fine, 1.5–3 cm. Leaves: petiole ?slender?, length 20–30% blade, pubescent, glandularity not recorded; blade oblong or ± narrowly obtrullate, sometimes elliptic, 1–2 cm, thin, base cuneate, lobes 0, sometimes very slightly lobed subterminally, margins subentire or finely serrate in distal 1/2, veins 1 or 2 per side (exiting in distal 1/2 of leaf), apex usually truncate to obtuse, sometimes cuspidately subacute, surfaces glabrous. Inflorescences 1–3-flowered; branches glabrous; bracteoles ?± caducous?, linear, margins eglandular or nearly so, ?glabrous?. Flowers 15 mm diam.; hypanthium glabrous; sepals triangular, ?2–3 mm?, margins ± entire, abaxially glabrous; anthers cream; styles 3 or 4. Pomes yellow, yellow blushed red, or red, suborbicular, 8 mm diam., glabrous; sepal remnants patent-reflexed; pyrenes 3 or 4.
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