Stems several, 2-5 cm long, villous. Leaves pinnatipartite, multiplanar, glabrescent except a few long hairs persisting on lower petiole; lowest pair of lobes multipartite; uppermost simple; petiole 3-13 cm long; lamina 4-6 cm long, 4-8 cm wide; ultimate lobes linear, 1.5-2.5 mm wide, tapering, acuminate, shallowly and widely reticulate, sparsely puberulous and pilose. Spikes to 15 cm long; flowers openly spaced; peduncle sparsely branched, to 15 cm long, sparsely puberulous; rachis puberulous, red; bracts ovate, obtuse, 0.7-0.9 mm long, spreading puberulous. Perianth ascending, opening widely, glabrous; adaxial tepal 3-4 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, strongly curved; abaxial tepal 2.1-2.3 mm long, not recurved. Stigma oblong, scarcely emarginate, 0.7-0.8 mm long, 0.2 mm wide, with incurved margins; ovary pubescent at base, otherwise glabrous. Fruit cylindrical with oblique apex, 6-7 mm long.
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