Dense shrub to 1.5 m tall with slender, arching branches. Leaves rhombic to lanceolate, to about 5 cm long, 2 cm wide,with large teeth, sometimes 3-lobed, bluegreen, with pronounced venation below. Flowers numerous, white, in clusters at the tips of the branches; late spring to summer. Fruit with styles spreading. Syn. S. reevesiana Lindl.

China, Japan.

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.