Stems few to many, simple or branched, to 9 cm long, pubescent. Leaves deeply dichotomously or trichotomously partite, multiplanar; petiole 3-9 cm long, glabrous except for pubescent sheath; lamina 5-13 cm long, 8-12 cm wide; lobes linear to triangular, 1.5-3 mm wide, obtuse to acute, very shallowly reticulate, sparsely appressed-pubescent when young, soon glabrous. Spikes enclosed within foliage, to 5 cm long; flowers few, widely spaced; peduncle branched, to 11 cm long, sparsely puberulous; rachis pubescent to puberulous; bracts ovate, almost acute, 1-1.5 mm long, puberulous. Perianth ascending, opening narrowly, sparsely puberulous; adaxial tepal 3.5-4 mm long, 1.4-1.8 mm wide; lateral tepals recurved; abaxial tepal 3 mm long, minutely hooded. Stigma trapeziform, emarginate, 0.6-0.8 mm long, 0.7-0.8 mm wide, ±flat; ovary pubescent. Fruit obovoid, with apical beak, 5-6 mm long, sparsely pilose.
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