Stems many, to 50 cm long, few-branched, pubescent. Leaves tripartite, multiplanar; primary lobes bi-or tripartite; petiole 2-7 cm long, pilose, soon glabrescent except pubescent sheath; lamina 5-6 cm long, 6-8 cm wide; ultimate lobes linear to lanceolate, 2.5-5 mm wide, acute, flat, shallowly reticulate, pilose and pubescent, soon glabrescent. Spikes to 10 cm long; flowers openly spaced; peduncle branched, to 18 cm long, pubescent at base, glabrous above; rachis puberulous; bracts ovate, obtuse, 1-1.5 mm long, spreading. Perianth ascending, opening widely, glabrous or sparsely puberulous; adaxial tepal 3.8-5 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm wide; abaxial tepal 2.5-3.5 mm long. Stigma ovate, minutely emarginate, very concave, 1-1.2 mm long, 0.7-0.8 mm wide; ovary pubescent. Fruit obovoid, 5-6 mm long, pilose.