Stems several, to 50 cm long, appressed-or spreading-pubescent, often also loosely hirsute, glabrescent. Leaves widely tripartite, very undulate or multiplanar; petiole usually 0.5-2 cm long; lamina 2-7 cm long, 3-7 cm wide, puberulous or pilose, often glabrescent; primary lobes usually tripartite; ultimate lobes triangular, 1.5-5 mm wide, usually pungently 1-3-dentate, shallowly to deeply concave; reticulation open, shallow. Spikes in upper axils, 2-5 cm long; flowers ±crowded; peduncle 1-3 cm long, usually branched, tomentose to pubescent; rachis pubescent; bracts ovate, 1.5-4.5 cm long, ascending, acute, hirsute to pubescent or pilose. Perianth usually opening narrowly, puberulous to pubescent; adaxial tepal 4.4-7 mm long, 1.4-3 mm wide; abaxial tepal 3.5-5.5 mm long. Stigma ±broadly ovate or obovate to transversely elliptic, shallowly emarginate, 0.7-1 mm long and wide, ±flat; ovary pubescent or silky. Fruit ellipsoidal to cylindrical, prominently beaked, 3.5-5 mm long, hirsute.
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