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Nomenclature
Hypericum sherriffii N. Robson & D.G.Long
Nomenclature
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Genus: HypericumSection: sect. Ascyreia
- holotype: BM - Ludlow, Sherriff - 6784
DIAGNOSTIC DESCRIPTION
Shrub 0.6-1.2 m tall, with branches spreading or pendulous, ± frondose ? Stems 4-lined and ancipitous when young, eventually unlined and compressed; internodes 1-3 5 mm long , shorter than leaves ; bark greyish-brown . Leaves sessile or subsessile ; lamina 10-14 x 3-5 mm, elliptic to elliptic-oblong, acute to subacute-apiculate, margin plane, base cuneate, discolorous, glaucous beneath, coriaceous; venation: 2-3 pairs of looping main laterals without other midrib branches or tertiary reticulum; laminar glands short streaks and dots; ventral glands dense. Inflorescence 1-flowered; pedicels 5-6 mm long; bracts deciduous. Flowers not seen. Sepals 5-8 x 1.5-2 mm, free, not imbricate ?, subequal, spreading in fruit, linear-elliptic, acute, with margin entire or minutely denticulate below apex; midrib visible, veins not prominent; laminar glands 4-6, linear towards base, punctiform and ± numerous distally. Petals, stamen fascicles and ovary not seen; styles (in fruit) 3.5-4 mm long; stigmas small. Capsule 8-11 x 5-5.5 mm, ellipsoid-ovoid. Seeds dark reddish-brown, c. 0-8 mm long, narrowly cylindric, very narrowly carinate or not, very shallowly linear- foveolate.