Shrubs, 10–20(–40) dm. Stems 1–8; bark dark gray; winter buds red to brown, shiny, conic, 5–12 mm, slightly glutinous, sparsely hairy except along scale margins and apex, hairs rufous. Leaves pinnately compound; stipules often persistent, margins rufous-hairy; blade pale abaxially, shiny, green adaxially, leaflets 7–9(–11), opposite or subopposite, oblong to elliptic, sometimes narrowly elliptic, 2.5–4.1(–4.5) × 0.9–2 cm, l/w ratio 2.1–2.6, margins finely to coarsely serrate, sometimes doubly serrate, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces soon glabrous, leaflet axils and petiole bases hairy, hairs rufous. Panicles 25–120+-flowered, rounded, 3–11 cm diam.; peduncles glabrous or sparsely hairy. Pedicels glabrous or sparsely hairy; ?fruiting pedicels essentially glabrous?. Flowers 9–10 mm diam.; hypanthium glabrous, hypanthium plus sepals 3 mm; sepals 0.7–1.5 mm, margins ciliolate, hairs whitish, irregularly glandular; petals white, broadly ovate, 3–4 mm; stamens 20; carpels distinct, apex conic, styles 3 or 4, 1.5–2 mm. Infructescences glabrous or nearly so. Pomes bright red, globose to subglobose, 6–9 mm diam., shiny if glaucous layer is rubbed off; sepals inconspicuous, incurved. Seeds red-brown, lanceolate, 4 × 2 mm, slightly asymmetric, slightly flattened.
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