Stems to 30 cm long, caespitose, sparingly branched, pubescent, soon glabrous. Leaves divaricately pinnatipartite, ±flat; lowest lobes also often pinnatipartite; upper lobes 2-or 3-dentate towards apex, hirsute-pubescent but soon glabrous; petiole 1.5-6 cm long, glabrous except hirsute inner face of sheath; lamina 3-8 cm long, 6-8 cm wide; ultimate lobes triangular, almost flat, 2-6 mm wide, pungent; reticulation fine but thick. Spikes 2-12 cm long; flowers moderately crowded; peduncle 2-4 cm long, branched just above base, glabrous; rachis sparsely appressed-puberulous to glabrous; bracts spreading, broad, obtuse, 1.5-2 mm long, ±glabrous. Perianth ascending, opening narrowly, glabrous; adaxial tepal 3.7-4.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, gently curved; abaxial tepal 2.5-2.9 mm long, with a prominently reflexed apex. Stigma oblong but constricted in middle, emarginate to shortly 2-lobed, straight, angled at base, 0.7-0.9 mm long, 0.5-0.6 mm wide; ovary pubescent. Fruit not seen.
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