Stems to 20 cm long, tomentose. Leaves ±divaricately pinnatipartite, multiplanar; petiole 1.5-8 cm long; leaf sheath appressed-tomentose; lamina 4-5 cm long, 6-9 cm wide; ultimate lobes linear to triangular, 2-5 mm wide, acute, flat to concave, thick; reticulation fine with thick ridges. Spikes 2-10 cm long; flowers moderately crowded; peduncle 1-3 cm long, tomentose; rachis tomentose; bracts 1-1.5 mm long, obtuse, puberulous. Perianth ascending, opening moderately, sparsely puberulous to almost glabrous; adaxial tepal 4-4.2 mm long, 1.8 mm wide, curved; abaxial tepal 2.8-3 mm long. Stigma transversely oblong, broadly 2-lobed, 0.7 mm long, 1 mm wide; ovary silky. Fruit obovoid, 5 mm long, beaked, hirsute.