Stems many, to 13 cm long, branched, pubescent. Leaves pinnatipartite, multiplanar; lowest lobes 2-4-partite; petiole 7-20 cm long, glabrous except pubescent sheath; lamina 5-9 cm long, 5-10 cm wide; ultimate lobes ±triangular, 3-10 mm wide, acute to pungent, widely reticulate, glabrous or sparsely pilose. Spikes 5-10 cm long; flowers ±crowded; peduncle to 30 cm long, branched, glabrous to sparsely puberulous; rachis sparsely puberulous; bracts ovate, obtuse, 1-1.5 mm long, almost glabrous to appressed-pubescent, with ciliate margins. Perianth ascending, curved, opening ±widely, glabrous; adaxial tepal 4.5-5.5 mm long, 1.8-2 mm wide with recurved margins; abaxial tepal 3 mm long. Stigma obtrapeziform, shallowly emarginate, 0.7-0.9 mm long, 0.9-1 mm wide, somewhat concave; ovary villous. Fruit not seen.
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