Stems decumbent, to 26 cm long, pilose and pubescent. Leaves with petiole 3.5-6.5 cm long, pilose and pubescent; sheath prominent, red-brown; lamina either lanceolate and entire, 7-15 cm long, 6-12 mm wide, obtuse to acute, or 3-lobed to pinnatipartite, with intramarginal veins in lower half, concave, sparsely pilose to glabrous; lobes when present linear to lanceolate, obtuse to acute; reticulation open, prominent. Spikes 2.5-6 cm long; flowers moderately crowded; peduncle simple or branched, 5-21 cm long, appressed-puberulous, glabrous above; rachis puberulous; bracts spreading, ovate-rhombic, 1.5-2 mm long, almost acute, glabrous except ciliate margins. Perianth ascending, opening widely, glabrous; adaxial tepal 6.5-7.5 mm long, 2.3-2.5 mm wide, ±straight; abaxial tepal 6-6.5 mm long. Stigma ovate, emarginate with incurved lobes, 1.3-1.6 mm long, 1-1.3 mm wide, thick; ovary glabrous except a few short, apical hairs. Fruit ellipsoidal on narrow neck, 5-8 mm long, glabrous or sparsely pilose.
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