Shrubs or trees, 25–40(–50) dm, wide-branching. Stems: twigs: new growth dark reddish green, pubescent, 1-year old shiny, dark red-brown, 2-years old dark reddish and gray; thorns on twigs ± straight, 1-year old glossy, very dark red-brown, older dark gray, ?shorter conic?, stout, 1.5–2.5(–3) cm. Leaves: petiole length 25–35% blade, eglandular or sparsely sessile-glandular, stipitate-glandular at leaf base, adaxial sulcus densely pubescent; blade ± elliptic or broadly elliptic to rhombic-elliptic, 2–4 cm at anthesis, 4–8 cm mature, base cuneate to narrowly cuneate, lobes 2–4 per side, max LII (0–)5–20(–25)%, lobe apex subacute to broadly cuspidate, margins finely crenate-serrate or serrate, veins 4–6 per side, hardly impressed, apex acute, abaxial surface glabrous or sparsely hairy young, veins appressed-scabrous, adaxial ± densely appressed-scabrous (indumentum persisting). Inflorescences 4–10-flowered; branches ± densely tomentose; bracteoles ± reddish, narrow, margins densely sessile-glandular. Flowers 17–21 mm diam.; hypanthium densely pubescent except sometimes distally; sepal color not recorded, broadly triangular, 3 mm, ?margins greenish?, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial pubescent; ?petals pale cream?; anthers pink; styles 3–5. Pomes ?1–5(–6) per infructescence?, pale reddish purple, becoming deep red to reddish plum and burgundy, suborbicular to broadly turbinate, 10–12 mm, usually ± densely hairy; sepals ± patent to recurved, ?4–5 mm?; pyrenes 3–5, dorsally strongly grooved, sides plane to very shallowly concave.
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