Stems erect or ascendent, 50-150 cm, terete, striate, shortly and densely hairy, almost tomen-tose in the youth, later glabrescent. Lower leaves nearly in a rosette; petioles to 10 cm, sheaths 3-6 cm; lamina to 12 by 10 cm, entire, ovate in outline, deeply cordate, subobtusely to acutely serrate; upper leaves gradually smaller and shorter petioled, more acutely serrate or even dentate, uppermost ones with branches in their axils, often tripartite, all of them more or less hairy above, white-tomentose beneath in the youth, glabrescent later. Umbels in an oblong panicle, terminal on the stems and its branches or seemingly opposite the leaves; peduncles 4-15 cm; rays 20-30, 2-4 cm; pedicels 12-16, 3-8 mm; involucres 0-4, involucels 1-4, nearly filiform, shorter than the outer pedicals. Petals nearly1½ by 1 mm with small inflexed tips. Mericarps nearly 2 by 1 mm, densely hairy with short spreading hairs.
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