Trees, ?crowns rounded?, (30–)80 dm. Stems 1, sometimes several, erect or spreading; bark: older trunks gray, ?fissures dividing bark into rectangular plates?; short shoots absent; unarmed; young branches tomentose, glabrescent; ?buds ovoid, apex obtuse or acuminate, tomentose?. Leaves deciduous, cauline, simple; stipules caducous, free, ovate, margins glandular-serrate; petiole present; blade broadly ovate to oblong, 5–10 cm, firm or leathery, margins flat, entire, venation pinnate, abaxial surface densely villous, adaxial glabrous. Inflorescences terminal ?on leafy branches?, flowers solitary, densely hairy (tomentose) within, otherwise glabrous; bracts present ?similar to stipules?; bracteoles absent. Pedicels present. Flowers developing with leaves, perianth and androecium epigynous, 40–50 mm diam.; hypanthium campanulate, ± constricted, 4–6 mm diam., inner rims hairy; sepals 5, reflexed, ovate or broadly lanceolate; petals 5, white or light pink, suborbiculate, ovate, or obovate, ?base short-clawed, apex rounded?; stamens 20, equal to or slightly longer than petals; carpels 5, connate, adnate to hypanthium, ?ovaries 5-locular?, tomentose, styles ?5?, terminal, distinct, ?± equal to or 3/4 length of stamens, protruding through pit in top of hypanthium?; ovules many. Fruits pomes, ?sessile or pedicellate?, yellow, pyriform or subglobose, 30–50 mm, tomentose (sometimes tomentum ± rubbed off, with abundant, grouped stone or grit cells); ?fleshy?; hypanthium persistent; sepals persistent, reflexed; carpels cartilaginous; styles ± persistent. Seeds many.
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Large, deciduous shrubs or small trees, not armed or rarely sub-spinescent; stems spreading or semi-erect. Lvs towards end of main stems, especially clustered on short shoots, simple, entire; stipules large, glandular at margin, free for most of length, confined to long shoots. Fls solitary and terminal on short, lateral, leafy shoots, 5-merous, ☿, pedicellate, moderately large and showy. Hypanthium tubular, closed at apex. Epicalyx 0. Sepals reflexed, persistent, connate in bud, glandular at margin. Petals ± contorted in bud, suberect at anthesis, white to pink. Stamens 15-25. Ovary inferior, sunken in hypanthium; carpels 5; styles 5, free; ovules many. Fr. a fleshy pome with leathery carpel wall and abundant stone cells in flesh; seeds many in each locule.
Shrubs or small trees, deciduous. Branches unarmed; buds small, pubescent, with few scales. Leaves simple, petiolate, stipulate, venation camptodromous, margin entire. Flowers solitary at apices of leafy branchlets. Sepals 5, margin entire, reflexed. Petals 5, white or pinkish, obovate. Stamens 20. Ovary inferior, 5-loculed, with numerous ovules per locule; styles 5, free, pubescent basally. Fruit a many seeded pome, with persistent, recurved sepals.
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