Shrubs diffuse or scandent, with long repent branches to 9 m. Branches purple-brown, robust; branchlets of present year red-brown, glabrous; prickles scattered, yellowish, curved, to 4 mm, stout, flat, tapering gradually to broad base. Leaves including petiole 8–17 cm; stipules 1.5–2.5 cm, mostly adnate to petiole, apical free parts auriculate, margin glandular-pubescent, apex acuminate; rachis and petiole pubescent, with scattered small prickles; leaflets (5–)7–9, oblong-ovate or ovate-lanceolate, 2.5–3.5(–4.5) × 1–2.5 cm, abaxially pubescent, with prominent veins, adaxially glabrous, base rounded or broadly cuneate, margin appressed-serrate, apex acute or shortly acuminate. Flowers 2.5–3.1 cm in diam., in terminal corymbs 6–15 cm in diam., partly umbel-like; pedicel 1.5–2 cm, densely pubescent and glandular-pubescent; bracts caducous, lanceolate. Hypanthium ovoid, ellipsoid, or obovoid, pubescent and glandular-pubescent. Sepals 5, deciduous, ovate-lanceolate, abaxially villous and glandular-pubescent, adaxially densely villous, margin often lobed, apex acuminate. Petals 5, fragrant, white, obovate, base cuneate, apex emarginate. Styles connate into column, exserted, nearly equaling stamens, densely villous. Hip deep red, ovoid, ellipsoid, or obovoid, 1–1.5 × 0.8–1 cm, shiny; sepals reflexed after anthesis and deciduous. Fl. May–Jul, fr. Sep–Oct.
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A shrub. It has long branches up to 9 m long. There are scattered prickles. The leaves are 8-17 cmlong. There are 7-9 leaflets. These are 3-4 cm long by 1-3 cm wide. The fruit or hips are oval and deep red. They are 1-1.5 cm long by 1 cm wide.
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