Gymnosporia nemorosa Szyszył.

Evergreen shrub or tree, up to 5 m high, with slender to robust thorns. Branchlets subangular, reddish brown, with pale lenticels. Leaves fascicled, glossy green above, paler below; lamina obovate or elliptic, 30-65 x 15-35 mm, apex acute, rounded to slightly emarginate, base tapering, margins dentate-serrate; venation distinct, midrib prominent on both sides; petioles 2-8 mm long. Inflorescences much shorter than leaves. Flowers creamy white, sweet-smelling. Sepals suborbicular, 1-2 mm long, margins uneven. Petals ± 2.0 mm long, margins undulate. Male flowers: stamens as long as petals. Female flowers: staminodes smaller than style and stigmas; ovary 3-locular; stigma 3-branched. Fruit a 3-valved, pear-shaped capsule, 2-4 mm long, smooth, chartaceous, greenish yellow, becoming reddish. Seeds completely enveloped by orange aril.