Stems several, to 30 cm long, branched, with imbricate scales and leaf bases, tomentose. Leaves divaricately pinnatipartite, multiplanar; lowest lobes also pinnatipartite; upper lobes 3-lobed; petiole 1.5-2.5 cm long, channelled, glabrous except tomentose-villous sheath; lamina 2.5-3.5 cm long, glabrous; ultimate lobes linear, acute, prominently channelled, 1-1.5 mm wide; reticulation fine. Spikes 1-5 cm long, terminal and in upper axils; flowers crowded; peduncle to 0.5 cm long, villous; rachis pubescent; bracts broad, obtuse, 1.5-2.8 mm long, villous. Perianth ascending, opening narrowly, pubescent with glabrous apex; adaxial tepal 3.8-4.6 mm long, 2-2.2 mm wide, very convex; abaxial tepal 3-3.5 mm long. Stigma transversely oblong to ±square, 2-lobed, 0.7-0.8 mm long, 0.9-1 mm wide; ovary pubescent. Fruit ellipsoidal, 2.5 mm long, pilose.
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