Shrubs or arborescent shrubs, 20–80 dm. Stems: ?trunk bark pale, stout?; twigs: new growth ?light green?, villous, ?at end of 1st year dull red-brown, sparsely villous or pubescent?, ?strongly flexuous?, 1-year old gray-brown, ?stout?; thorns on twigs numerous, straight, shiny purplish black, ultimately ashy gray, stout, (3–)7(–9) cm. Leaves: ?stipules caducous, oblong, foliaceous, acute, villous, minutely red glandular?; petiole ?stout?, length 25–30% blade, ?slightly grooved?, densely tomentose, glandularity not recorded; blade ?bluish?, short-ovate to suborbiculate, 4–5 cm, ?less than 1/2 grown when flowers open?, subcoriaceous, base broadly cuneate to rounded, lobes 1 or 2 per side, short, wide, lobe apex acute, margins coarsely, sharply doubly serrate, ?teeth glandular?, veins 3–5 per side, apex acute or rounded and short-pointed, abaxial surface yellow-green, tomentose, midvein prominent, adaxial ?dark or bluish green, lustrous?, densely hoary tomentose, later scabrous. Inflorescences 5–10-flowered, ?compact?; branches hoary-tomentose; bracteoles persistent, oblong-obovate, (smaller) membranous or (larger) herbaceous, margins finely glandular-serrate, ?apex acute or rounded, villous?. Flowers 20 mm diam.; hypanthium densely covered with long, matted, white hairs; sepals broad, short, margins stipitate-glandular, abaxially densely villous; stamens 20, anthers rose; styles 5, ?base surrounded by large tufts of white hairs?. Pomes ?in clusters on erect, tomentose pedicels?, dark crimson, sometimes with pale dots, orbicular to suborbicular or short-oblong, 10–12 mm diam., slightly hairy at ends; ?flesh thin, orange, dry, mealy; calyces sessile, enlarged, with wide deep cavity?; sepals persistent, usually erect and spreading or incurved, ?coarsely serrate, villous?; pyrenes 5, ?dorsally irregularly grooved, sides smooth, acute at ends?.
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