Caespitose shrub. Stems many, to 12 cm long, branched, pubescent. Leaves simple or 2-or 3-lobed, obovate, obtuse, flat, glabrous; lamina 15-22 cm long overall, to 2 cm wide (simple), to 6 cm wide (3-lobed), narrowed to petiole 5-8 cm long; reticulation fine, very shallow; leaf base sparsely silky. Spikes to 10 cm long; flowers rather widely spaced; peduncle to 30 cm long, branched, glabrous; rachis glabrous; bracts broad, obtuse, 1.5 mm long, glabrous except ciliate upper margin. Perianth ascending, expanded above middle, opening widely, glabrous; adaxial tepal 5-5.5 mm long, 2-2.2 mm wide; abaxial tepal 3.2 mm long. Stigma ±square to obtrapeziform, lobed to a third or a little further, 0.8-0.9 mm long and wide; ovary pubescent. Fruit obovoid with terminal beak, 4.5-5.5 mm long, spreading-pilose.
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