Shrubs, 30–50 dm, ?often clonal?. Stems: twigs: new growth green, glabrous, 1-year old reddish tan, older deep gray; bark on younger 2–5 cm thick branches mainly dark (with horizontal lenticels); thorns on twigs straight (often needlelike) or recurved, 2-years old black, shiny, ± fine, 1–3 cm (sometimes bigger and stouter). Leaves: petiole 0.8–1.8 cm; blade narrowly elliptic to bluntly elliptic-lanceolate, 3–5 cm, ± coriaceous, base narrowly cuneate, lobes 0, margins crenate, teeth numerous, small, obtuse, venation semicamptodromous, veins 6–9(–12) per side, apex usually obtuse, sometimes acute, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial appressed-pubescent young, glabrescent. Inflorescences 12-flowered; branches not glandular-punctate; bracteoles early caducous, few, margins eglandular or sessile-glandular. Flowers 10–13 mm diam.; sepals proximally broadly triangular with short, narrower limbs, 1.5–2 mm, margins not recorded, apex acute, pubescence not recorded; stamens 20, anthers cream; styles 5. Pomes black mature, orbicular, 8 mm diam.; sepals suberect, 1.5–2 mm, ?tips reflexed?; pyrenes 3–5, sides irregular. 2n = 34, 51.
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