Much-branched, tangled, small shrub. Stems to 15 cm long, covered by silky leaf bases. Leaves deeply 3-5 times forked, multiplanar; petiole 5-11 cm long; lamina 5-11 cm long, 8-20 cm wide; lobes linear, curved to flexuose, 1.5-3 mm wide, flat, acute; reticulation fine, shallow. Spikes 4-15 cm long, several together, terminal; flowers rather widely spaced; peduncle 3-7 cm long, slender, appressed-pubescent; rachis appressed-pubescent; bracts widely spreading, acute, 1.5 mm long, pubescent. Perianth ±horizontal, slightly curved, opening moderately widely, glabrous; adaxial tepal 4.5 mm long, 2 mm wide; abaxial tepal 3.5 mm long. Stigma ±transversely oblong, 2-lobed, 0.8 mm long, 1 mm wide, setose in lower centre; ovary silky. Fruit ellipsoidal, 4 mm long, spreading-pubescent.
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