Hypericum buckleyi M.A.Curtis

Shrub 0.05-0.45 m tall, decumbent, spreading, with branches erect to ascending from decumbent rooting base, forming low compact mats. Stems reddish, 4-lined and ancipitous; cortex exfoliating in strips; bark reddish brown, smooth, thin. Leaves sessile or with pseudopetiole to 1 mm long; lamina 4-25 x 2-12 mm, oblong or elliptic to oblanceolate or obovate, plane, paler beneath, chartaceous, persistent or breaking off at top of pseudopetiole, apex rounded, base cuneate; venation obscure: (2)3(4) pairs of main laterals with- out visible subsidiaries or tertiaries, only midrib prominent; laminar glands dense. Inflorescence l(3-5)-flowered, terminal; pedicels 1.5-3 mm long; bracts foliar. Flowers 20-25 mm in diam.; buds broadly ovoid. Sepals 5, 4-5 x 2.5-3 mm (to 6 x 3.5 mm in fruit), not imbricate, subequal, persistent, broadly elliptic to elliptic-spathulate or obovate, obtuse, plane, basal veins 3, not or obscurely branched. Petals 5, golden yellow, becoming reflexed, 6-10.5 x 3-5 mm, 1.5- 2 x sepals, oblanceolate, with apiculus lateral, obtuse. Stamens c. 100, longest 6-9 mm, c. 0.8 x petals. Ovary 3-merous, 3-4 x 2-3 mm, narrowly ovoid, acute, placentation incompletely axile; styles 3, 2.5-4 mm long, 0.85-1 x ovary, separating in fruit. Capsule 8-12 x c. 5 mm, narrowly ovoid to ovoid-cylindric, acute, rounded-trigonous, exceeding sepals, thinly coriaceous. Seeds 1.5-2 mm long, dark brown, narrowly to broadly carinate; testa finely scalariform.