Unarmed, deciduous, scarcely aromatic shrub usually 0.5-1.5 m high; branches and shoots erect, slightly hairy when young. Lvs plicately folded in bud, with petioles to c. 8 cm long, slightly clasping at base; lamina broadly deltoid, 6-11 × 8-13 cm, often smaller on upper part of flowering stems, deeply palmately lobed, with 3-5 coarsely toothed, deltoid lobes, glabrate, dull and slightly rugose above, slightly to moderately hairy beneath, especially on veins; glands 0; base cordate or subcordate. Racemes pendent, usually 10-20-flowered; fls not fragrant. Hypanthium c. 1 mm diam., broadly campanulate, green, glabrous. Sepals c. 2-2.5 mm long, broadly obcuneate, green, reflexed at anthesis. Petals 0.5-0.7 mm long, ± rectangular and slightly obovate, green. Filaments c. 0.5 mm long. Fr. 5-10 mm diam., globose, red and shining, occasionally white, translucent, glabrous; flesh sweet.