Erect shrub 2-3 m tall with bristly stems. Leaflets 3, elliptic to rounded, white-hairy below with bristles and teeth on the main veins, marginal teeth even. Flowers to 1 cm or so wide, white, in many-flowered branched clusters; spring. Fruit yellow.

SW China, Himalaya.

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Rosaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.