Shrubs, ?stiff, compact?, 5–20 dm, branches not weeping except in larger specimens. Stems: twigs: new growth ?green?, densely appressed-pubescent, 1-year old purple brown-gray, ?slender?; thorns on twigs ?numerous?, ± straight, 2-years old purple-brown, slender, 1–3 cm. Leaves ?deciduous; stipules approximately obtriangular, thin?; petiole length 0–28% blade, ?winged distally?, pubescent only young, glandular; blade ?dark green young?, narrowly obovate to cuneate or oblanceolate, 0.8–1.8 cm, thin to subchartaceous, base narrowly cuneate, lobes 0 or 3 per side distally, obscure, margins serrulate-crenate (distal 1/2), teeth glandular, veins 1 or 2 per side (exiting beyond widest part of leaf), apex usually obtuse, rarely acute, ?shiny mature?, surfaces sparsely pubescent, abaxial ± densely pubescent near vein axils. Inflorescences 1-or 2(or 3)-flowered; branches ± sparsely appressed-pubescent; bracteoles linear, margins sessile-glandular. Flowers 12–15 mm diam.; hypanthium pubescent; sepals triangular, margins glandular, abaxially pubescent; anthers ivory, rarely light purple; styles 3–5. Pomes red, suborbicular, 7–8 mm diam., glabrate; sepal remnants appressed; pyrenes 3–5. 2n = 68.
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