Stems to 15 cm long, sparsely branched, appressed-pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves divaricately pinnatipartite into 3-7 pairs of lobes or upper one single, multiplanar; lower 1 or 2 pairs often 1-5-lobed; petiole 5-15 cm long; lamina 4-10 cm long, 10-18 cm wide; ultimate lobes linear, 2-6 mm wide, straight, obtuse, shallowly reticulate, pubescent, soon glabrous except petiole sheath. Inflorescence much exceeding foliage; spikes in upper axils, 3-6 cm long, elongating to 25 cm; flowers ±crowded; peduncle 12-20 cm long, sparsely branched, puberulous to almost glabrous; rachis appressed-puberulous; bracts broadly obcordate-rhombic, obtuse, spreading, 1.5-2.5 mm long, sparsely puberulous with ciliate margins. Perianth ±swollen, opening widely, very sparsely appressed-puberulous on tube; adaxial tepal 5-5.5 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, ±straight with recurved margins; abaxial tepal 4.5 mm long. Stigma ovate-rhombic, truncate to shallowly emarginate, 2-2.2 mm long, 1.6-1.7 mm wide; apex incurved; ovary pubescent. Fruit not seen.
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