Semi-erect, scrambling shrub; primocanes arching, dark-purple, sharply angled and ± flat between, with numerous subsessile glands, few long-stalked glands and moderately to densely clothed in mostly stellate hairs; armature of many, stout, erect prickles mostly on angles and usually a few pricklets on faces and angles. Young stems densely hairy and glandular. Leaflets (3)-5, sparsely pilose on upper surface, pilose on veins and tomentose (often densely) between on lower surface, irregularly serrate-dentate; terminal leaflet lamina orbicular to broadly elliptic-obovate, acuminate, 60-90-(110) × 50-80-(110) mm with petiole 1/4-3/7 length of lamina. Stipules linear. Infl. densely hairy, with subsessile and many but not numerous long-stalked glands. Sepals long-attenuate, tomentose and with longer simple hairs, with pricklets. Petals rounded or slightly notched, undulate, pale to deep pink. Anthers glabrous or with 1-2 hairs.