Semi-prostrate, scrambling shrub; primocanes low-arching to trailing, purplish, sharply angled and flat to slightly concave between, with some subsessile glands, otherwise glabrous or almost glabrous; armature of numerous, stout, erect to slightly falcate prickles mostly on angles. Young stems with few, scattered, eglandular hairs and numerous, subsessile glands. Leaflets 3-5, almost glabrous on upper surface, moderately pilose on veins but lacking tomentum on lower surface, serrate-dentate; terminal leaflet lamina broad-ovate to suborbicular, acuminate, 40-80 × 30-65 mm, with petiolule 1/4-⅖ length of lamina. Stipules lanceolate to narrow-elliptic. Infl. moderately hairy, with subsessile glands. Sepals long-acuminate, tomentose and with longer simple hairs, with pricklets. Petals rounded to notched, slightly crinkled, pale pink. Anthers glabrous.