Stems few to many, to 9 cm long, simple or little-branched, tomentose. Leaves pinnatipartite, multiplanar, rather undulate, glaucous; lowest lobes also 2-or 3-lobed; petiole to 28 cm long, glabrous, becoming puberulous towards base; lamina 10-14 cm long, to 20 cm wide; ultimate lobes lanceolate, flat, 5-10 mm wide, obtuse to acute, openly and shallowly reticulate, pubescent, sometimes glabrescent. Spikes 5-10 cm long; flowers moderately crowded; peduncle to 40 cm long, puberulous at base, glabrous above, openly branched; rachis puberulous; bracts spreading, obtuse, 1-1.2 mm long, glabrous outside, pubescent inside. Perianth ascending, opening widely, glabrous outside, somewhat hairy inside; adaxial tepal 5.5-6 mm long, 2.5 mm wide, curved; abaxial tepal 4 mm long. Stigma almost square to obtrapeziform, shallowly to moderately emarginate, 0.9-1.1 mm long, 1.5-1.6 mm wide, ±flat; ovary puberulous. Fruit ellipsoidal on a short neck, shortly beaked, 5-6 mm long, pilose.
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