Stems to 50 cm tall, branched, densely appressed-pubescent. Leaves twice bifurcate with arched lobes, ±flat; petiole 2-4 cm long; lamina 1-3 cm long, 2.5-8 cm wide; ultimate lobes linear to ±triangular, obtuse with thick, blunt mucro, 1-2.5 mm wide, finely reticulate with impressed abaxial midrib, tomentose but soon glabrous except short sheathing base. Spikes in upper axils, to 15 cm long; flowers crowded; peduncle 0.5-3 cm long, puberulous; rachis sparsely puberulous; bracts spreading, ovate, obtuse, almost glabrous except ciliate margins. Perianth opening narrowly, glabrous; adaxial tepal 3-3.5 mm long, 1.3 mm wide, slightly hooded; lateral tepals shortly recurved; abaxial tepal 2.5 mm long. Stigma trapeziform, broadly retuse, 0.7-0.8 mm long and wide; ovary velvety. Fruit narrowly ellipsoidal, 4 mm long, pubescent.
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