Shrubs or trees, 20–50 dm, slender unless in full sun. Stems: twigs: new growth color not recorded, sparsely pubescent young, glabrescent, 1-year old deep reddish or deep purple-brown, 2-years old mid brown; thorns on twigs ?moderate to very frequent?, straight to recurved, 1-year old bright, shiny, dark red-brown, slender, 2.5–4(–5) cm. Leaves: petiole length 25–30% blade, sessile-glandular, glands few to several, small, adaxial sulcus pubescent; blade broadly elliptic to ovate, 4–6 cm mature, base cuneate to broadly cuneate or rounded, lobes 3 or 4 per side, max LII 15–25%, lobe apex acute, margins serrulate or crenate-serrate, veins 5–8 per side, slightly impressed, apex acute, abaxial surface glabrous young, vein axils sometimes with axillary tufts, adaxial sparsely to moderately scabrous young, glabrate to sparsely scabrous mature. Inflorescences 5–15-flowered; branches sparsely to moderately pilose; bracteoles ?few, even young?, light brown, very narrow, margins glandular. Flowers 16 mm diam.; hypanthium glabrous or ± pilose proximally; sepals green with pale edges, triangular, 4 mm, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial sparsely pilose; anthers pale pink to pink; styles 4. Pomes red, becoming bright to deep red, ellipsoid to suborbicular, 8–10(–12) mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; sepals spreading-reflexed to recurved triangular, ?glandular-serrate?; pyrenes 3–5, dorsally grooved, sides ± plane to shallowly and smoothly concave ?concavity deepest on narrowest pyrenes?.
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