Stems to 5 cm long, pubescent and long-hirsute. Leaves ±cuneate but 3-lobed or ±pinnatipartite, ±flat to undulate; primary lobes 2-or 3-lobed and these sometimes with further small lobes or teeth; petiole 5-16 cm long, hirsute and puberulous; lamina 4-9 cm long, 3-8 cm wide, puberulous; primary lobes 8-18 mm wide; ultimate lobes triangular, obtuse but mucronate; reticulation open, shallow, sharply defined. Spikes to 20 cm long; flowers rather openly spaced; peduncle to 25 cm long, branched, puberulous; rachis puberulous, red; bracts broadly cordate, acute, 1.5-2 mm long, puberulous. Perianth ascending, opening widely, striate when dried, puberulous; adaxial tepal 5-6 mm long, 1.9-2 mm wide, strongly curved; abaxial tepal 4 mm long. Stigma broadly lunate, 0.8-1 mm long, 1-1.1 mm wide; margins somewhat recurved; ovary pubescent. Fruit obovoid, with short beak, 5 mm long, pilose.
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