Shrubs or trees, 30–50 dm. Stems: twigs: new growth reddish, 1-year old shiny, deep reddish brown, 2-years old grayish red, older gray; thorns on twigs ?few to numerous?, straight to slightly recurved, 2-years old black, slender, 2–5 cm. Leaves: petiole length 25–40% blade, sparsely sessile-glandular; blade ovate-trullate, 4–6(–7) cm, ?terminal 1/2 ± straight-sided across lobe tips?, base rounded to broadly cuneate, lobes 0 or 1–3 per side, barely present or sinuses shallow, ?LII 0–20%?, lobe apex acute, margins serrulate, ?teeth to 1 mm?, veins 5–7 per side, apex acute to acuminate, abaxial veins sparsely hairy young. Inflorescences 4–10(or 11)-flowered; branches glabrous; bracteoles caducous, ?numerous, often ± curved, green?, linear, membranous to subherbaceous, margins glandular. Flowers 15–18 mm diam.; sepals narrowly triangular, 3 mm, ?base flaring to wide?, margins entire or glandular-denticulate, ?apex ± obtuse, abaxially glabrous?; anthers pale pink to pale purple; styles 3 or 4. Pomes yellow or flushed pink, sometimes reddish, suborbicular, 8–10(–12) mm diam.; sepals ?on collar?, reflexed; pyrenes 3 or 4. 2n = 34, 51.
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