Shrubs or trees, 20–35 dm, dense and twiggy. Stems: twigs: new growth ± red, glabrous, 1-year old ± glossy, medium to deep brown, 2-years old gray; thorns on twigs ?numerous?, straight to slightly curved, 1-year old deep brown, 2-years old nearly black, slender to ± stout, 2–3.5 cm. Leaves: petiole length 30–40% blade, sessile-glandular, glands 1–few, small, adaxial sulcus pubescent; blade broadly rhombic to broadly elliptic or oblong, ?length/width = 0.7–1?, 2.5–4 cm at anthesis, 3.5–4.5(–5) cm mature, base cuneate, lobes 2 or 3 per side, max LII 15–25%, lobe apex acute, margins serrulate or crenate-serrate, veins 3 or 4(or 5) per side, barely impressed, apex acute to subacute, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial appressed-scabrous (young), often glabrescent. Inflorescences 6–15-flowered; branches glabrate to sparsely pilose; bracteoles pale brown, very narrow, margins glandular. Flowers 13–16 mm diam.; hypanthium glabrous or sparsely pilose; sepals usually pale green, triangular, 3 mm, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial pubescent; anthers pink; styles 3 or 4. Pomes deep red to red-burgundy younger, deep purple fully ripe, ellipsoid to suborbicular, (9–)11–12 mm, glabrous; sepals eroded or spreading, ?4–4.5 mm, pointed?; pyrenes 3 or 4, dorsally shallowly or more deeply grooved, sides longitudinally grooved or very shallowly concave.
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