Encyclopedia of Life · EOL (see source)
Species
SPECIES
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderRosales
- FamilyRosaceae
Native toChina North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Korea, Xinjiang
Observations recorded3,799
Shrubs 1–3 m tall. Branchlets reddish brown to purplish brown, cylindric, robust, glabrous, with ± straight flattened curved prickles and glaucous bloom. Leaves imparipinnate, 5- or 7-foliolate, rarely 3-foliolate; petiole 2–5 cm, petiolule of terminal leaflet 1–2 cm, lateral leaflets subsessile, petiolule and rachis pubescent, with sparse, curved minute prickles; stipules linear-lanceolate, 4–7 mm, soft hairy; blade of leaflets ovate, rhombic ovate, or broadly ovate, (2–)3–8 × 2–5 cm, abaxially pubescent or only along veins or shortly tomentose, adaxially glabrous or pubescent only along veins, base cuneate to subrounded, margin irregularly coarse serrate to incised coarsely serrate, sometimes 3-lobed on terminal leaflet, apex acute. Inflorescences terminal on lateral short branchlets, corymbose, 2.5–5 cm, several to more than 30-flowered; rachis and pedicels gray pubescent, with sparse, curved minute prickles; bracts linear, nearly as long as or slightly shorter than stipules, pubescent. Pedicel 5–10 mm. Flowers 7–10 mm in diam. Calyx abaxially gray pubescent; tube shallowly cupular; sepals spreading at anthesis, reflexed in fruit, narrowly ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 4–7 × 2–3.5