Trees to 8–12 m tall. Branchlets purplish brown when young, dark gray or reddish brown when old, terete, glabrous, sparsely lenticellate; buds narrowly ovoid, sparsely tomentose only at margin of scales, apex acuminate. Stipules caducous, linear-lanceolate, 5–8 mm, membranous, pilose, margin serrate, apex acuminate; petiole 2–3 cm, thick, glabrous; leaf blade broadly ovate or suborbicular, 4–5 × 4–5 cm, lateral veins 8–10 pairs, both surfaces glabrous, base rounded or truncate, margin obtusely serrate, apex acute or rounded-obtuse. Raceme umbel-like, 6–10-flowered; peduncle glabrous or subglabrous; bracts caducous, linear-lanceolate, 5–8 mm, membranous, margin sparsely glandular serrate when young, apex acuminate. Pedicel 2.3–3 cm; subglabrous. Flowers 2–3 cm. Hypanthium cupular, abaxially glabrous. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, ca. 6 mm, adaxially brown tomentose, margin entire, apex acuminate. Petals white, obovate or broadly obovate, 1–1.5 × 0.7–0.9 cm, base shortly clawed, apex rounded. Stamens 20–22, ca. 1/2 as long as petals. Ovary 3-or 4-loculed, with 2 ovules per locule; styles 4 or 5, nearly as long as stamens, glabrous. Pome yellowish green, with few dots, depressed-globose, 2.5–3 cm in diam., 4-or 5-loculed; fruiting pedicel 2.5–3 cm, Glabrous; sepals persistent. Fl. Apr–May, fr. Aug–Sep. 2n = 51*.
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