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Nomenclature
Hypericum woodianum N. Robson
Nomenclature
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Section: sect. BrathysSubsection: subsect. Phellotes
- isotype: COL - Wood - 5040
- holotype: K - Wood - 5040
Media
DIAGNOSTIC DESCRIPTION
Shrub ('undershrub') to 1.5 m tall, erect, with elongate branches strict, lateral, bearing numerous short ascending lateral branching, only the short shoots c. 3/5-4/5 from the base flowering, not branching dichotomously. Stems orange- brown, 4-lined and ancipitous when young, soon 2-lined, eventually terete, cortex exfoliating in strips; internodes 5-6 mm long (long shoots) or c. 1 mm long (short shoots). Leaves sessile, squarrose (spreading above sheathing base), markedly tetrastichous, persistent and becoming deflexed; lamina 4-7 x 1-1-5 mm, lanceolate, markedly incurved, not cucullate, slightly carinate, concolorous, not glaucous, subcoriaceous; apex acute, margin narrowly pellucid, base parallel to subamplexicaul, somewhat sheathing, united to form projecting interfoliar ridge; basal veins 1(3), unbranched or with 1-2 pairs of ascending near-basal lateral branches, tertiary reticulation obscure; laminar glands rather sparse, not prominent. Inflorescence 1-flowered, on short lateral branches; pedicel almost absent; upper leaves narrowly triangular. Flowers c. 15-18 mm in diam., stellate? Sepals 5-6 x 2-2.5 mm, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; veins 7, branching and anastomosing above, with midrib slightly prominent; glands linear, distally interrupted. Petals deep? yellow, c. 9 x 6 mm, c. 1.8 x sepals, obovate; apiculus acute; glands linear, distally interrupted to striiform. Stamens c. 75, longest c. 4.5 mm long,c. 0.5 x petals. Ovary c. 3 x 1.8 mm, ellipsoid; styles 3, 4.5 mm long, 1.5 x ovary, divergent from above base; stigma narrow. Capsule and seeds not seen.