A moderately large, openly branched, essentially glabrous herb, drying yellow; stem 3 mm. thick below when dry, up to 30 cm. or more tall, somewhat villous at the nodes, internodes up to 10 cm. long below, reduced upward; leaves both alternate and opposite, broadly lanceolate, apex sharply acuminate, base acute, 1-2.5 cm. wide X 2.5-6 cm. long, palmately 3-to 5-nerved, the midrib and innermost pair of lateral nerves salient beneath, pale-glandular-dotted and glabrous beneath, pubescent at the base above, ciliate toward the apex, drying membranous, trans-lucent; petiole scarcely 5 mm. long, grooved above, alately decurrent; spikes terminal and axillary, 1 mm. thick X 5-7 cm. long, loosely flowered; peduncle slender, 5-10 mm. long; bracts round-peltate; ovary ovoid, apex oblique, stigma subapical; fruit not present.
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