Stems to 25 cm long, pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves pinnatipartite, undulate; lowest lobes again pinnatipartite; petiole 5-10 cm long; lamina 5-9 cm long, 10-15 cm wide; ultimate lobes ±triangular-ovate, 5-8 mm wide, acute, pungent; reticulation open. Inflorescence much exceeding foliage; spikes 5-12 cm long; flowers widely spaced; peduncle 8-15 cm long, branched, puberulous to pubescent; rachis pubescent; bracts 2.5-3 mm long, pubescent. Perianth ascending, opening moderately widely, appressed-pubescent but glabrous towards apex, inside hairy about middle; adaxial tepal 5.8-7 mm long, 2.3-2.6 mm wide, gently convex; abaxial tepal 4.6-5.5 mm long. Stigma ±broadly ovate, shallowly emarginate, ±flat, 1.1 mm long and wide; ovary silky. Fruit ellipsoidal on thick neck, 7 mm long, hirsute.