Stems several, to 7 cm long, branched, silky but covered by leaf bases. Leaves pinnatipartite with 2 or 3 pairs of lobes, gently undulate; petiole 6-15 cm long, pilose, glabrescent; lamina 6.5-8 cm long, 8-9 cm wide, pilose to pubescent, glabrescent; primary lobes 3-6 mm wide, tripartite, the upper ones simple; ultimate lobes triangular, abruptly pungent; reticulation very fine, shallow. Inflorescence not or shortly exceeding foliage; spikes 6-18 cm long; flowers rather openly spaced; peduncle 2-10 cm long, branched, tomentose to puberulous, prominently striate; rachis puberulous; bracts ascending, 1-2 mm long, broad, acute, puberulous to hirsute in lower half. Perianth spreading, opening moderately widely, glabrous; adaxial tepal 4.5-5 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide, strongly curved; abaxial tepal 2.5-3.5 mm long. Stigma narrowly oblong, slightly broadened at base, emarginate, 0.8-1 mm long, 0.3-0.4 mm wide, straight to gently sigmoid, thick; ovary pubescent. Fruit narrowly obovoid, 4 mm long, pubescent.
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