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Nomenclature
Hypericum eastwoodianum I.M.Johnst.
Nomenclature
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Section: sect. BrathysSubsection: subsect. Spachium
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Synonyms: 2
- holotype: CAS - Mason - 1614
- isotype: DS - Mason - 1614
- isotype: GH - Mason - 1614
- isotype: MO - Mason - 1614
- isotype: NY - Mason - 1614
- isotype: US - Mason - 1614
- isotype: F - Mason - 1614
- type: P - Mason - 1614
Media
DIAGNOSTIC DESCRIPTION
Subshrub or shrublet 0.25-0.6 m tall, with taproot, bushy, erect; branches lateral and below inflorescence, strict or lower ascending, not rooting. Stems reddish-brown, 4-lined, ancipitous and densely gland-dotted when young, eventually subterete, cortex exfoliating in strips; internodes 3-8.5 mm long. Leaves sessile, spreading from base to subimbricate-ascending, longer than internodes, persistent (i.e. deciduous with cortex) or breaking off earlier above base; lamina 7-30 x 1-3.5 mm, linear or narrowly lanceolate to linear-oblanceolate, margin strongly revolute, entire, not cucullate, midrib prominent or not and smooth beneath, usually papillose above, glaucous beneath and sometimes slightly so above, coriaceous; apex obtuse or apiculate to rounded, base angustate to parallel-sided, free; basal vein 1, with 2-3 pairs of ascending lateral branches sometimes visible beneath, tertiary reticulation absent; laminar glands dense, not prominent. Inflorescence (l)5-30-flowered, usually dense (c.f. 86. peninsulare) , branching dichasial/monochasial (after 1(2) nodes), without or rarely with subsidiary branches from node below; peduncle and pedicels 1-4.5 mm long; bracts and bracteoles linear. Flowers 4-6(-8?) mm in diam., stellate. Sepals 3-5 x 1-1.5 mm, subequal, oblanceolate to oblong or elliptic-oblong or lanceolate, acute; veins 3-5, unbranched, all becoming prominent; glands all linear or punctiform in upper ¼. Petals bright yellow to pale orange, c. 5-6 x 2-2.5 mm, 1.2-1.5 x sepals, oblanceolate to oblong; apiculus obtuse; glands linear, distally interrupted. Stamens (15-)20-40(-50, fide Johnston), longest 2-3 mm long, c. 0.5 x petals, fascicles not distinct. Ovary 1.5-2 x 1 mm, ovoid- ellipsoid; styles 3, (0.6)1-2.5 mm long, (0.4-) 0.7-1 x ovary, spreading; stigmas broadly capitate to peltate. Capsule 3.5- 4(-4.5) x 1.5-2.3 mm, narrowly ovoid-cylindric, trigonous, acute to acuminate, shorter than or equalling or rarely exceeding sepals. Seeds c. 0.6 mm long, ecarinate; testa finely scalariform.