Shrubs or trees, 20–50 dm, branches ± weeping. Stems: ?trunk bark ashy gray, rough or scaly?; twigs: new growth densely white-canescent, 1-year old purple-brown or blackish, older dark gray; thorns on twigs ?absent or rare?, straight or slightly recurved, 1-year old blackish or purple-brown, ± stout, 3–4.5 cm. Leaves: petiole length 25–33% blade, ?winged distally?, densely pubescent, glandular; blade obovate-cuneate to narrowly obovate, 2–4 cm (length/width = 1.6–2.1), ± coriaceous (floppy in wind), base gradually tapered, lobes 0 or 2–4 per side, ?subterminal, toothlike?, margins glandular-denticulate to subentire, veins 2–4(or 5) per side (except smaller leaves), apex often strikingly cuspidate, surfaces ± white-pubescent young, especially on abaxial veins, glabrescent. Inflorescences 3–5-flowered; branches tomentose; bracteoles linear, margins glandular. Flowers 15–20 mm diam.; hypanthium tomentose; sepals narrowly triangular, ?6–8 mm?, margins finely glandular-serrate, abaxially ± tomentose, especially proximally; anthers cream or ivory; styles 3–5. Pomes yellow blushed red to orange-red, suborbicular, (8–)10–12 mm diam., pubescent; sepals spreading-recurved or lost; pyrenes 3–5.
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