Plants medium-sized, grass green, young inflorescences yellowish, often becoming reddish brown, ?25–30(–40) cm, often robust?. Stems densely spreading-hairy in distal 1/2. Leaves: stipules translucent to pale green proximally, ?apex green?; blade reniform or reniform-orbiculate, rather shallowly 7–9-lobed, margins flat or slightly undulate, basal sinuses wide or narrow, ?basal lobes not overlapping?, middle lobes rounded, equal to longer than their half-width; incisions usually relatively short, sometimes absent or relatively long; teeth usually slightly connivent, mostly slightly asymmetric but a few strongly so, apex acute to subobtuse, surfaces densely pubescent throughout, adaxial ?gray green to dark green?. Inflorescences: primary branches densely hairy; ?peduncles sparsely hairy or glabrous?. Pedicels glabrous or some of the proximal hairy. Flowers ?green, often becoming reddish?; epicalyx bractlet lengths at least 0.5 times sepals (not longer, always narrower); hypanthium ?rounded at base?, usually sparsely to densely spreading-hairy, rarely glabrous. Achenes exserted 1/5 from discs.
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