Straggling shrub 1-2 m. Branches brownish, pubescent when young becoming glabrescent, with few prickles or unarmed, eglandular. Leaves usually ternate, rarely pinnate with 5 leaflets. Blade of leaflets ovate or broadly ovate, rarely ovate-lanceolate, (1.5-)3-6(-8.5) x (1-)2-5(-6) cm, base rounded to shallowly cordate, apex usually acuminate, sometimes acute, margin irregularly sharply doubly serrate, leaf surface adaxially pubescent to glabrescent, abaxially usually densely white tomentose, rarely becoming glabrescent, but still tomentose on veins. Petiole (2-)3-5 cm long, pubescent with sparse minute prickles, petiolules of terminal leaflets (0.7-)1-2 cm long, petiolules of lateral leaflets 1-2 mm long to subsessile. Stipules persistent, linear to linear-lanceolate, 0.5-0.8(-1) cm long, pubescent, fused to petiole. Inflorescence usually terminal on short axillary branches, 2-5 cm long, corymbose, usually 2-7 flowered or flowers solitary. Flowers 1.5-2 cm in diameter. Pedicel 1.5-3.5 cm long, pubescent. Bracts linear to linear-lanceolate, 3-7 mm long, pubescent. Hypanthium shallowly cupular, pubescent. Sepals 7-12 x 3-6 mm, lanceolate, entire, erect at anthesis, densely pubescent on both surfaces, apex long acuminate to caudate. Petals 6-10 x 4-6 mm, pink or red, glabrous, ovate, apex slightly emarginate or entire, base shortly clawed. Stamens ca. 4 mm long, numerous, filaments linear, tapering from base to apex. Carpels slightly shorter or as long as stamens, pubescent, style pubescent only at base. Drupetum globose, usually 1-1.5 cm in diameter. Drupelets 30-60, yellowish orange when young, maturing red to black, pubescent. Pyrenes ovoid, reticulate.