Shrub or small tree, deciduous, thorny, up to 8(10) m in height, irregular in shape, but \u00b1 oval-oblong, with extended or extended-erect branches. Trunk well defined, straight or slightly tortuous in the old specimens that grow in good ecological conditions, with brownish-grey bark, fissured. Branches brown-grey, branches of a few years brownish or brown, younger branches brown-whitish covered with a short, white, villous-lanate indumentum. Leaves [(1.5)2.5-4.5(5) \u00d7 (1)2-4(4.5) cm] alternate, obovate or oval-rhomboid, acute, with cuneiform base, margin with 3-5 short lobes or sometimes very deep (almost to the central vein), entire or with dentate apex or with small obtuse lobules, slightly coriaceous, green on both sides, villous when young, but once adult, glabrous on the upper side and glabrous or glabrescent on the underside. Petiole villous-tomentose, 0.5-1.5 cm long. Stipules with entire margin. Inflorescences terminal on brachyblasts, corymbiform, with villous-tomentose branching. Calyx tomentose, with 5 small triangular sepals, 1.5-2 mm long. Corolla with 5 white petals, glabrous, suborbicular, (4)5-6(7.5) mm long. Stamens numerous (16-22) with purple anthers. Styles 2-3, rarely 1, 4 or 5, free, villous at the base. Fruit a fleshy, subglobose pome, crowned by the persistent calyx, red or reddish-yellow, glabrous. Seeds with (1)2-3(4).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-12750","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n