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Nomenclature
Hypericum bupleuroides Stef.
Nomenclature
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Genus: HypericumSection: sect. Bupleuroides
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Synonyms: 1
DIAGNOSTIC DESCRIPTION
Perennial herb, 0.45-0.8 m tall, with stems solitary or few, erect from creeping and rooting base, unbranched below inflorescence. Stems incompletely 2-lined or usually terete, eglandular; internodes 50-120 mm, shorter to longer than leaves. Leaves perfoliate, with or without ± shallow sinus at points of union; lamina 70-210(280) ´ 37-80(-100) mm, ovate to elliptic-ovate or oblong-ovate, paler beneath, not glaucous, plane, papyraceous; apex obtuse to apiculate, margin entire, bases united in pairs; venation: 4 pairs of main lateral veins from lower third or so of midrib, tertiary reticulation dense, only main veins prominent beneath; laminar glands pale, very small, scattered; marginal glands pale, small, irregular. Inflorescence 4-11(-25)-flowered, from 1-3 nodes, without flowering branches, the whole ± broadly pyramidal; pedicels 18-25 mm; bracts and bracteoles 0.5-4 mm long, lanceolate, withering and falling, leaving scale-like base. Flowers 27-40 mm in diam., stellate, with petals becoming reflexed; buds narrowly ovoid ?, rounded ?. Sepals free, narrowly imbricate, unequal, 2.5-4.5 ´ 2-2.3 mm, elliptic-oblong to ovate, rounded, entire or with minute sessile glands, erect in bud and fruit; veins 5, distally branched; laminar glands linear to striiform or distally punctiform; marginal glands reddish to black or absent. Petals 15-20 ´ 2.5-5? mm, c. 8 ´ sepals, narrowly oblanceolate, without apiculus, entire or usually with minute sessile glands; laminar glands pale, striiform to punctiform; marginal glands reddish to black. Stamens 50-75, '3'-fascicled, longest 14-17 mm long, c. 0.75-0.85 ´ petals; anther gland amber. Ovary (3.5?-)6-7 ´ 3 mm, ovoid-conic; styles 12-14 mm, 2-3 ´ ovary, slender; stigmas small. Capsule 9-14 ´ 5-8 mm, ellipsoid to ovoid, c. 3.5 ´ sepals, narrowly longitudinally vittate. Seeds reddish brown, 1.2-1.5 mm, ± cylindric, slightly curved, without terminal appendage, not or slightly carinate; testa minutely linear-foveolate.