Stems to 7 cm long, silky to villous. Leaves divaricately pinnatipartite, ±flat; lowest pair of lobes tripartite to pinnatipartite; second simple or 1-3-lobed; apical lobe 3-5-lobed; petiole 5-16 cm long, glabrous except puberulous sheath; lamina 4-9 cm long, 5-14 cm wide; ultimate lobes linear, lanceolate or triangular, straight, 3-4 mm wide, acute, flat, shallowly reticulate, glabrous. Spikes 1-5 cm long; flowers moderately crowded; peduncle 2.5-12 cm long, branched, sparsely appressed-puberulous; rachis angular, sparsely puberulous; bracts broadly ovate, obtuse, 1.2-1.4 mm long, glabrous except a few hairs on margins and base. Perianth ascending, opening narrowly, glabrous; adaxial tepal 4.4-4.8 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide; abaxial tepal 3-3.1 mm long. Stigma ±ovate, shallowly emarginate, dorsally thickened, 0.8-0.9 mm long and wide; ovary villous. Fruit not seen.
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