Tangled shrub to 1 m tall and wide. Stems branched, pubescent or villous, glabrescent. Leaves openly tripartite or pinnatipartite, multiplanar; lowest pair of lobes shortly tripartite towards apex; upper pair(s) usually simple; petiole 4-15 cm long; lamina 5-10 cm long, 6-12 (-14) cm wide; ultimate lobes linear to narrowly triangular, 2-8 mm wide, acute or obtuse but mucronate, shallowly reticulate, puberulous to villous, glabrescent. Spikes elongating to 14 cm long; flowers ±crowded; peduncle openly branched, to 30 cm long, glabrous or pilose; rachis pubescent; bracts ovate, ±acute, spreading, 1.1-1.6 mm long, puberulous or glabrous except ciliate margins. Perianth ±horizontal, narrow, opening moderately widely, glabrous except a few hairs about middle; adaxial tepal 6-6.5 mm long, 2-2.5 mm wide, strongly curved; abaxial tepal 3.5-4.5 mm long. Stigma ±obovate to broadly V-shaped, deeply emarginate with reflexed tips, 0.7-1 mm long, 0.9-1 mm wide; ovary velvety. Fruit ellipsoidal, beaked, 4-5 mm long, shortly pilose.
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