Stems to 2 cm long, erect, pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves pinnatisect, ±flat, usually with 1-3 lobes from each node; petiole 10-23 cm long, pilose and puberulous; lamina 5-11 cm long, 4-11 mm wide, very sparsely puberulous when young; lobes lanceolate, acute, discolorous; midrib and lateral veins prominent below with open reticulation; reticulation obscure on upper surface; margins slightly incurved. Spikes 5-10 cm long; flowers openly spaced; peduncle 10-42 cm long, branched, appressed-puberulous; rachis puberulous; bracts 4-5 mm long, appressed-puberulous. Perianth ±straight, opening ±widely, glabrous; adaxial tepal 7.5 mm long, 1.4 mm wide; abaxial tepal 7.5 mm long. Gynoecium thickened below attachment to membrane; stigma orbicular, deeply concave, c. 0.5 mm long and wide; ovary pubescent. Fruit enclosed within enlarged bract, ellipsoidal with lateral incurved beak, 5-6 mm long, puberulous.
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