Stems to 20 cm long, closely tomentose. Leaves ±flat, usually with 3 primary lobes, sometimes these also shortly 3-lobed towards apex, occasionally 2 further lobes towards apex of leaf; petiole 4-8 cm long; leaf sheath closely silky, sometimes upper third glabrous; lamina 3-6 cm long, 4-10 cm wide, gradually tapered to petiole, silky, glabrescent; ultimate lobes linear to triangular, 3-5 mm wide, acute to obtuse but shortly pungent, flat; reticulation fine, shallow. Spikes 3-8 cm long; flowers rather crowded; peduncle to 7 cm long, pubescent; rachis stout, pubescent; bracts ±acute, 2 mm long, pubescent. Perianth erect, glabrous or sparsely pilose; tepals separating almost to base; adaxial tepal 5 mm long, 2-2.2 mm wide, gently convex, with recurved margins; abaxial tepal 3.5 mm long. Stigma broadly oblong, 2-lobed, very concave, 1 mm long, 0.8-1.1 mm wide; ovary silky. Fruit ellipsoidal, 4-4.5 mm long, beaked, pilose.
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