Shrubs or trees, 30–100(–140) dm. Stems ?usually single-trunked?; 1-year old twigs deep mahogany, shiny, older gray-brown; thorns on twigs ?single?, slightly recurved, usually brown young, 2 cm. Leaves: (fall color plum to crimson or light crimson); petiole 1–2 cm, pubescence and glandularity not recorded; blade elliptic to broadly elliptic, sometimes ± narrowly ovate or rhombic, 4–6 cm, lobes 2 or 3 per side, lobe apex acute to ± obtuse, margins serrate, venation craspedodromous, veins 4 per side, apex subacute to obtuse, abaxial surface glabrous except on veins, adaxial finely appressed-pubescent. Inflorescences 12–20-flowered; branches glabrous, sometimes ± sparsely pubescent; bracteole margins stipitate-glandular. Flowers 15–20 mm diam.; hypanthium glabrous; sepals broadly triangular, 3 mm, margins obscurely glandular; stamens 10–12, anthers pale pink; styles 3 or 4. Pomes red-burgundy to chestnut or reddish brown (late Aug), deep purple to black at full maturity, ± ampulliform-orbicular, 8–10 mm diam., glabrous; sepal remnants reflexed, apex obtuse; pyrenes 3 or 4, sides ± eroded, sometimes plane. 2n = 68.
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