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Nomenclature
Hypericum paramitanum N. Robson
Nomenclature
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Section: sect. BrathysSubsection: subsect. Phellotes
- holotype: VEN - Aristeguieta, Medina - 3485
- isotype: NY - Aristeguieta, Medina - 3485
Media
DIAGNOSTIC DESCRIPTION
Shrub or small tree, 1-4 m tall, erect, with branches strict, pseudo-dichotomous or lateral. Stems orange-brown, 4-lined and markedly ancipitous when young, the lower end of the subfoliar lines projecting between the leaf-pair, eventually terete, cortex exfoliating in strips; internodes 1.5-4 mm long. Leaves sessile, spreading from near base, not tetrastichous, deciduous from near base without fading; lamina 12-23 x 5-8 mm, elliptic or oblong-elliptic to lanceolate, plane or subrecurved, not cucullate, markedly carinate, concolorous, not glaucous, coriaceous; apex acute to obtuse, base cuneate, not sheathing, free; basal veins 1(3) with c. 5 pairs of ascending or spreading lateral branches, tertiary reticulation often marked, dense, impressed; laminar glands dense, obscure or invisible superficially, not prominent. Inflorescence 1(2-3)-flowered, with pseudo-dichotomous branches from node below; peduncle and pedicels 7-9 mm long, gradually incrassate upwards; upper leaves foliose. Flowers 25-30 mm in diam., stellate, petals becoming reflexed. Sepals 8-11 x 3-4 mm, lanceolate, acute; veins 5-7, branching and anastomosing above, with midrib prominent; glands linear, distally punctiform. Petals (bright ?) yellow, 14-15 x 8 mm, c. 2 x sepals, oblanceolate; apiculus acute; glands linear, interrupted distally. Stamens 100-120, longest 9-10 mm long, c. 0.6 x petals. Ovary 3-4 x 2.5-3 mm, broadly ovoid; styles 3, 8-10 mm long, c. 2.5 x ovary, suberect; stigmas slightly enlarged. Capsule c. 7 x 3 mm, narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid, shorter than sepals. Seeds not seen.