Herbs, monocarpic, green streaked with purple, glaucous. Stems little-branched, (suckering at base), terete, 5–20 dm × 0.5–2 cm. Leaves opposite, evenly spaced, the 1st simple, the rest mostly pinnate with 3 or 5 short-stalked leaflets; petiole subterete, 20–100 mm; blade and leaflets green streaked with purple, elliptic-oblong, 5–20 × 2–12 cm, margins crenate-serrate, apex obtuse, surfaces ± glaucous; bulbils in notches of leaf margins. Cymes open, paniculate, 1–8 dm diam.; branches to 12 cm. Pedicels 10–25 mm. Flowers: calyx pale yellow flecked with red, inflated, 25–50 mm, (papery), tube 24–40 mm, lobes deltate, to 10 mm, shorter than tube, apex acute; corolla with tube greenish white and exserted portion maroon, 30–70 mm, contracted basally, (sparsely glandular-puberulent), lobes oblong-ovate to triangular, 10–20 mm, apex acuminate. 2n = 40.
