Shrubs or trees, 50–60(–70) dm. Stems: ?main trunk usually present, sometimes suckering?; twigs: new growth densely short-pubescent, 1-year old dark purple-brown, older dark gray; thorns on twigs ?few?, slightly recurved, ?deep brown to black?, ± slender, 2–4 cm. Leaves: petiole 1.5–2 cm, hairy, glandularity not recorded; blade broadly elliptic to ovate or broadly deltate-ovate, 4–8 cm (–10 cm on extension shoots), becoming ± coriaceous, base cuneate to very broadly cuneate, lobes 3 per side, sinuses ± shallow, lobe apex rounded to broadly angled, margins short-serrate, veins 4(or 5) per side, apex obtuse or subacute, abaxial surface subglabrous or glabrescent, veins persistently short-hairy, adaxial short-appressed-hairy. Inflorescences 6–12-flowered; branches densely short-tomentose; bracteole margins stipitate-or sessile-glandular. Flowers 15–22 mm diam.; hypanthium densely tomentose, ?disc interior glabrous, bristly at center?; sepals broadly triangular, 4–5 mm, margins glandular-serrate, ?apex subacute?, abaxially pubescent (especially near base); stamens 10, anthers pale pink; styles 2–4, ?stigmas capitate?. Pomes red to plum purple (Aug) to nearly black (Sep), ± orbicular to broadly ovoid, 12 mm diam., short-pubescent; sepals erect-patent to patent-incurved, 4–5 mm; pyrenes 3, sides irregularly eroded or ± plane. 2n = 68.
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