Erect shrub to c. 3 m high; stems with sturdy curved prickles to c. 10 mm long, glabrescent. Leaves deciduous, pinnate, 5–7-foliolate; leaflets ovate to obovate or elliptic, mostly 15–40 mm long, 10–20 mm wide, base rounded, apex acute, margins serrate, both surfaces more or less glabrous, eglandular; stipules eglandular, margins with gland-tipped hairs. Flowers single or in few-flowered terminal corymbs; peduncles more or less glabrous, not prickly. Outer sepals often pinnatifid, eglandular, strongly reflexed after flowering; petals 5, obovate to suborbicular, 8–20 mm long, emarginate, white or pinkish; stamens and styles numerous, styles free, protruding. Hip ovoid to globose, to c. 15 mm long, glabrous, dark red, sepals not persistent. Flowers Oct.–Nov.