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Nomenclature
Hypericum maguirei N. Robson
Nomenclature
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Section: sect. BrathysSubsection: subsect. Phellotes
- holotype: BM - B. Maguire, C. Maguire - 61707
- isotype: NY - B. Maguire, C. Maguire - 61707
DIAGNOSTIC DESCRIPTION
Shrub 0.3-1 m tall, erect or spreading; branches strict or ascending, lateral, short (flowering) and long (extension), narrowly spiciform to pyramidal, sometimes secund. Stems dark red-brown, 4-6 lined when young, eventually terete, without epidermal emergences, cortex exfoliating in strips or irregular flakes; internodes 1-3 mm, long. Leaves sessile, suberect to erect, ± densely imbricate, tetrastichous, persistent; lamina 2-4 x 0.4-1.2 mm, ± narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic or linear, incurved, midrib impressed beneath, pale lucent green with margin narrowly hyaline and plane, not glaucous, coriaceous; apex obtuse to rounded, markedly cucullate, base narrowly cuneate to parallel-sided, not or scarcely clasping, pairs united to form narrow interfoliar ridge; basal vein 1, unbranched; laminar glands dense or in one row beneath, not impressed or prominent, sparser above. Inflorescence 1-flowered, terminal and on short lateral branches; pedicel 1-3 mm long; upper leaves foliose. Flowers (5-)8-15 mm in diam., stellate (to obconic ?). Sepals 2-5 x 0.7-7.1 mm, acute, incurved-cucullate, margin hyaline; veins 3-5, unbranched, midrib prominent beneath; glands linear, distally punctiform. Petals golden to orange-yellow, 3-8 x 1.5-4 mm, 1.5-2 x sepals, obovate to oblong-obovate; apiculus subacute to obsolete; glands striiform and punctiform. Stamens 25-40, longest 2-6 mm long, 0.6-0.75 x petals. Ovary 1-2 x 0.5-1.2 mm, narrowly ovoid to ellipsoid; styles 3, 2-5 mm long, 1.5-2.5 x ovary, spreading-incurved; stigmas small. Capsule c. 3 x 2 mm, narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid, equalling sepals. Seeds not seen.