Crataegus ×sinaica

Deciduous shrub or small tree to c. 5 m tall; stems glabrous to sparsely villous, usually armed with spines to c. 35 mm long. Leaves simple, obovate-cuneate, mostly 1.5–5 cm long, 1–5 cm wide, apex usually 2–6-lobed, lobes often toothed, surfaces glabrescent; petiole 5–27 mm long; stipules large, leafy. Flowers fragrant; pedicels glabrous or sparsely villous. Sepals broadly triangular, 1.5–4 mm long, usually glabrous; petals 4–8 mm long, white; carpels 2, styles usually 2. Pome subglobose, 6–12 mm diam., glabrescent, orange-red to dark red; pyrenes usually 2. Flowers Oct.–Dec.