Shrubs scrambling, 1.5–3 m tall. Branchlets climbing, brownish to dark brown, slightly pubescent when young, later glabrous, with sparse prickles, often with stalked glands. Leaves palmately 3-or 5-foliolate; petiole 2–4 cm, sparsely pubescent, with stalked glands and minute prickles, rarely without stalked glands, leaflets sessile; stipules linear-lanceolate, 7–10 mm, puberulous, margin with shortly stalked glands, margin entire or deeply 2-laciniate; blade of leaflets rhombic-lanceolate, 3–8(–11) × 1.5–4 cm, abaxially sparsely pubescent, adaxially pilose along veins, base cuneate, margin incised coarse-doubly serrate, apex acuminate to caudate. Inflorescences terminal, corymbose, 2–3 cm, 2-or 3-flowered or with flowers solitary in leaf axils; bracts linear-lanceolate, 6–9 mm, often with stalked glands, margin entire or 2-or 3-laciniate. Pedicel 1.5–2.5 cm, glabrous, with sparse, gland-tipped hairs and small prickles. Flowers to 2 cm in diam. Calyx glabrous, abaxially glandular pubescent, with minute prickles; sepals erect, spreading, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 0.8–1.2(–3) cm × 5–8 mm, margin entire or 3-laciniate, inner sepals with tomentose margin, apex acuminate or caudate. Petals white, elliptic or oblong, much shorter than sepals, base shortly clawed. Stamens many; filaments broad. Pistils 10–15, slightly shorter than stamens; style and ovary glabrous. Aggregate fruit red or orange-red, subglobose, to 2 cm in diam., glabrous, enclosed in calyx; pyrenes reniform, to 4 mm, rugose. Fl. Apr–May, fr. Jun–Jul.
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A straggling prickly shrub. The leaves are stalked. They have 3-5 leaflets and the leaflets only have short stalks. They are oval and taper to the tip. They have teeth along the edge. They are white and hairy underneath. The flowers are white or pinkish. The fruit are red and succulent.
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