Stems to 5 cm long, pubescent but hidden by leaf bases. Leaves pinnatipartite, multiplanar; lowest pair of lateral lobes once or twice tripartite; second pair tripartite or simple; third pair simple; petiole 6-15 cm long; lamina 5-10 cm long, 6-14 cm wide; ultimate lobes linear to lanceolate, 2-3 mm wide, acute, finely and deeply reticulate, probably pubescent, glabrescent except petiole sheath. Spikes 4-8 cm long; flowers somewhat crowded; rachis sparsely appressed-puberulous; peduncle openly branched, 12-20 cm long, glabrous; bracts rhombic, obtuse, divergent, 1.5-2 mm long, almost glabrous. Perianth ascending, ±narrow, opening narrowly, glabrous; adaxial tepal 4-5 mm long, 2 mm wide, ±straight with slightly recurved margins; abaxial tepal 3.2 mm long. Stigma trapeziform, ±flat, broadly emarginate, 0.8 mm long, 1 mm wide; ovary pubescent. Fruit barrel-shaped, c. 2 mm long, pilose.
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