Stems ascending or decumbent, to 25 cm long, simple or sparsely branched, pubescent and pilose. Leaves flabelliform, undulate; petiole 5-14 cm long, shortly pubescent; lamina 5-9 cm long, 2-6 cm wide, coarsely dentate to shortly lobed, shortly pubescent to puberulous, with several prominent veins; teeth and lobes mucronate; reticulation fine. Spikes 6-12 cm long; upper flowers crowded; peduncle to 15 cm long, sparsely branched, spreading-puberulous to pilose; rachis pubescent; bracts almost acute, 2 mm long, pubescent. Perianth opening moderately widely, sparsely puberulous, sometimes glabrous towards base and apex; adaxial tepal spathulate, strongly curved, 3-3.5 mm long, 1.5-1.8 mm wide; abaxial tepal 2.8-3 mm long. Stigma transversely curved-elliptic, broadly emarginate, 0.6 mm long, 1.1 mm wide, ±convex; ovary pubescent. Fruit not seen.
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