Cotoneaster simonsii

Erect, semi-evergreen or deciduous shrub to c. 4 m high; new growth tomentose. Leaves simple, ovate, elliptic-ovate or broadly elliptic, 1.7–3.6 cm long, 1–2.5 cm wide, base rounded to broadly cuneate, apex acute, often mucronate, upper surface green, with sparse strigose hairs or glabrous, lower surface light green, strigose, often sparsely so; petiole 3–5 mm long; stipules linear-lanceolate, membranous. Inflorescence a 2–6-flowered cluster; pedicle 2–5 mm long, strigose. Sepals 5, sparsely to moderately hairy, margins pubescent; petals 5, suborbicular, 3–4 mm long, clawed, erect, pink or red. Pomes usually obovoid, 6–10 mm diam., glabrous or with sparse hairs, red to orange-red; seeds usually 3–5.   Flowers spring.