Hypericum coris L.

Low shrub with stems slender, 0.1–0.4 m long, ascending, creeping and rooting from woody branching base, with or without short axillary shoots from some or all nodes. Stem (3)4(5)-lined, eglandular; internodes 4–35 mm, shorter than to exceeding leaves. Leaves (3)4(5)-verticillate, sessile to 0.5 mm petiolate, glaucous beneath, 4–20 × 0.7–2 mm, linear to rarely linear-oblanceolate, apex shortly apiculate to rounded, margin nearly always revolute, base parallel to subparallel, 1-veined; laminar glands pale, rather dense, punctiform; intramarginal glands not seen. Inflorescence (1–)3–c. 20-flowered, from 1–3 nodes, lax, broadly cylindric to broadly pyramidal or subcorymbiform, 15–65 mm long, without subsidiary branches; bracts reduced-foliar; bracteoles linear to oblong, sparsely to densely fringed, with sessile globose black glands. Flowers 13–20 mm in diam.; buds globose. Sepals subequal to usually equal, free or almost so, not imbricate, 3–4 × 0.8–1.4 mm, oblong to elliptic-oblong, rounded; veins 3, not prominent; margin with sessile globose black glands; laminar glands pale, linear. Petals yellow, not tinged red, persistent, 8–12 × 2.5–3.5 mm, c. 3 × sepals, narrowly oblanceolate; marginal glands absent; laminar glands pale, narrow, striiform. Stamens c. 30–35, longest 7–11 mm, persistent. Ovary 2–3 × 1–1.5 mm, ellipsoid to ovoid; styles 6–8 mm, 3–4 × ovary. Capsule 5–8 × 4–4.5 mm, ovoid, valves with narrow dorsal vittae and oblique + swollen lateral vesicles. Seeds mid brown, c. 1.7 mm long, curved-cylindric, minutely papillose.