Stems several to many, to 8 cm long, branched, pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves pinnatipartite, multiplanar; lowest lobes also pinnatipartite; upper lobes less divided; petiole 10-17 cm long, glabrous except pubescent sheath base; lamina 6-19 cm long, 6-15 cm wide; ultimate lobes broadly linear to lanceolate, 3-9 mm wide, ±flat, obtuse to acute, openly and shallowly reticulate, sparsely appressed-puberulous when young, glabrescent. Inflorescence much exceeding foliage; spikes 6-15 cm long; flowers ±openly spaced; peduncle 10-17 cm long, simple to little-branched, sparsely puberulous; rachis sparsely puberulous; bracts spreading, obtuse, 1-1.5 mm long. Perianth ascending, opening widely, glabrous; adaxial tepal 4.5-6 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, curved; abaxial tepal 3.5-4.5 mm long. Stigma transversely oblong-lunate to 2-lobed, lateral edges recurved, 0.8-1 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide; ovary puberulous. Fruit narrowly obovoid, 5.5-7 mm long, very sparsely puberulous.