Stems erect or arching, 2.5–10(–15) dm; distal branches tomentose-woolly, with stellate hairs, stipitate-glandular; infrastipular prickles paired, ?stout?, 10–12 × 3.5–6 mm, internodal prickles and aciculi sparse, smaller, eglandular, rarely glandular. Leaves: stipules 4–8 × 1–2 mm, margins entire, often sessile-or stipitate-glandular, glands sparse to common, auricles foliaceous; petiole and rachis puberulent, sometimes glabrous; leaflets 3, terminal: petiolule 1 mm, blade obovate, margins broadly 1-crenate, teeth 4–8 per side, abaxial surfaces tomentulose or glabrous, ?adaxial lustrous?. Flowers 5 cm diam.; hypanthium: densely setose, setae 4–6 mm; sepals 12–20 × 1–3(–4) mm; petals dark pink. Hips subglobose, 10–18 mm diam., densely setose.