Stems tufted, to 7 cm long, appressed-tomentose. Leaves pinnatipartite, multiplanar; lowest pair also sometimes pinnatipartite; petiole 4-18 cm long, glabrous; sheath tomentose inside; lamina 5-10 cm long, 5-15 cm wide; ultimate lobes lanceolate, 3-8 mm wide, ±flat, rounded to obtuse but shortly mucronate, pubescent, soon glabrous; reticulation fine, shallow, with rounded veins. Spikes 5-12 cm long; flowers crowded, becoming open; peduncle branched, 10-30 cm long, puberulous at base, glabrous above; rachis puberulous; bracts spreading, obtuse, 1.5-1.8 mm long, puberulous to almost glabrous. Perianth ascending, opening widely, sparsely puberulous to glabrous, hairy inside; adaxial tepal 4.5-5 mm long, 2-2.2 mm wide, curved; abaxial tepal 3.5-4 mm long. Stigma orbicular to broadly ovate, shallowly emarginate, 1 mm long, 0.9-1 mm wide, thickened in basal third, ±concave above; ovary tomentose. Fruit (immature) narrowly obovate, 4 mm long, spreading-puberulous.
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