Shrub to 60 cm tall. Stems tufted, to 10 cm long, appressed-pubescent or glabrous. Leaves simple and obovate or more usually deeply 3-lobed to pinnatipartite, ±flat to multiplanar; primary lobes simple or deeply lobed; petiole 5-27 cm long, glabrous except base; lamina 6-20 cm long, appressed-puberulous, glabrescent; lobes linear to lanceolate, 5-8 mm wide, rounded, openly reticulate. Spikes 3-15 cm long; flowers rather widely spaced; peduncle simple or branched, 7-35 cm long, glabrous to puberulous; rachis puberulous; bracts 1-1.5 mm long, almost glabrous. Perianth ascending, opening ±widely, glabrous or sparsely hairy; adaxial tepal 4-5.5 mm long, 1.9-2.5 mm wide, strongly curved, prominently pubescent behind anthers; abaxial tepal 3.5-4 mm long. Stigma broadly ovate to transversely oblong, deeply emarginate to horned, somewhat concave, 0.8-1.3 mm long, 0.9-1.1 mm wide; ovary pubescent to almost glabrous. Fruit ellipsoidal or obovoid on prominent neck, obtusely beaked, 5-6 mm long, spreading-puberulous or glabrous.
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