Stems to 19 cm long, branched, villous, glabrescent. Leaves pinnatipartite, somewhat multiplanar; lowest and second pairs of lobes also 1-or 2-partite; uppermost simple; petiole 5-11 cm long, glabrous except inside of sheath; lamina 9-18 cm long, 5-13 cm wide; ultimate lobes linear to narrowly triangular, 1.5-4 mm wide, acute, sparsely puberulous, glabrescent; reticulation shallow. Spikes to 12 cm long; flowers openly spaced; peduncle branched, 12-28 cm long, very sparsely puberulous; rachis puberulous; bracts ovate, obtuse, spreading, 1-2 mm long, glabrous except puberulous base and ciliate margins. Perianth opening moderately widely, glabrous; adaxial tepal 4.5-5.5 mm long, 1.5 mm wide, strongly curved; abaxial tepal 2.5 mm long. Stigma oblong, shallowly emarginate, 0.7-0.8 mm long, 0.5 mm wide; ovary glabrous except for few hairs at base. Fruit ellipsoidal, beaked, 5-6.5 mm long, finely puberulous at base.
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