Shrubs or trees, 60 dm. Stems: twigs: new growth reddish green, glabrous, 1-year old reddish brown, sometimes dark, older mid gray; thorns on twigs recurved, 2-years old dark blackish red, ± shiny, ± slender, 3–5 cm. Leaves: petiole 2–4 cm, glabrous, eglandular or sparsely glandular; blade ± ovate, 4–7 cm ?length/width = to 1.5?, subcoriaceous, base broadly rounded to broadly cuneate, rarely truncate, lobes 3–5 per side, sinuses usually shallow, lobe apex acute to acuminate, margins strongly serrate, veins 5 or 6 per side, apex acuminate, adaxial surface glabrate to appressed-hairy young, glabrescent; ?extension-shoot leaf blades widest 2/5 from base, length/width = 1.3–1.4, sinuses not deep, LII less than 25%, base broadly cuneate, rarely truncate?. Inflorescences 5–12-flowered; branches glabrous; bracteoles ?few, very narrow?, margins glandular. Flowers 16–18 mm diam.; hypanthium glabrous; sepals narrowly triangular, ?5–6 mm?, margins subentire, ?abaxially glabrous?; stamens 6–10, anthers red to purple; styles 3 or 4. Pomes reddish orange to bright red, suborbicular to oblong, 8–11 mm diam.; ?flesh hard?; sepals commonly erose, patent-reflexed; pyrenes 3 or 4, dorsally grooved. 2n = 68.
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