Shrubs or trees, 60 dm. Stems: twigs: new growth reddish green, glabrous, 1-year old reddish brown, sometimes very 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 deltate-ovate to ovate, 4–7 cm ?length/width = 1.1–1.2?, subcoriaceous, base broadly rounded to ± cuneate, lobes 3–5 per side, sinuses usually shallow, lobe apex acute, margins strongly serrate, veins 5 or 6 per side, apex acute to acuminate, surfaces glabrous except adaxial appressed-hairy young. Inflorescences 5–12-flowered; branches glabrous; bracteoles ?few?, 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.; sepals patent-reflexed or commonly erose; pyrenes 3 or 4, dorsally grooved.
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