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Nomenclature
Hypericum espinalii N. Robson
Nomenclature
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Section: sect. BrathysSubsection: subsect. Phellotes
- isotype: VALLE - Espinal, Ramos - 3055
- holotype: BM - Espinal, Ramos - 3055
- isotype: MO - Espinal, Ramos - 3055
Media
DIAGNOSTIC DESCRIPTION
Shrub c. 0-3 m tall, erect, with branches strict, lateral. Stems orange-brown?, 4-lined and ancipitous when young, soon 4-angular, eventually terete, cortex exfoliating in strips; internodes 3-5 mm long. Leaves sessile, appressed to ascending, not markedly tetrastichous, persistent (deciduous with cortex); lamina 8-13 x 1-2 mm, linear-oblanceolate, plane or distally conduplicate, not or slightly cucullate, subcarinate, concolorous, not glaucous, subcoriaceous; apex narrowly acute to shortly acuminate with terminal hydathode?, base parallel-sided to subcuneate, not sheathing, free or united with stem-line apex to form narrow interfoliar sheath; basal vein 1 , apparently unbranched or with 1-2 pairs of ascending lateral branches, tertiary reticulation not visible or absent; laminar glands dense, prominent. Inflorescence 1-4 (-7)- flowered, mixed unequally pseudo-dichotomous and (dichasial or) monochasial, from terminal node only; peduncle and pedicels 2-2.5 mm long, not incrassate upwards; upper leaves foliose or (in cymose parts) reduced. Flowers 6-7 mm(?) in diam., stellate. Sepals 3-3.5 x 0.7.-0.8 mm, narrowly triangular-lanceolate, acute, not cucullate; veins 5, unbranched, midrib or all prominent; glands linear. Petals c. 5 x 1.5-2 mm, c. 1.35-1.65 x sepals, oblanceolate, apiculus acute; glands punctiform. Stamens c.25-30, longest 3 mm long, c. 0.6 x petals. Ovary(2 x 0.7 mm, narrowly ellipsoid; styles 1-5 mm long, 0-75 x ovary; stigmas broadly capitate. Capsule 3.5 x 2 mm, ellipsoid. Seeds not seen.