Hypericum chamaemyrtus Triana & Planch.

Subshrub 0.5-1 m tall, erect or decumbent at the base; branches from near base or very rarely lateral, strict and sometimes ascending. Stems reddish-brown, 4-lined, markedly ancipitous and eglandular? when young, eventually terete, cortex exfoliating in strips; internodes 2-14(-20) mm long. Leaves pseudopetiolate with pseudopetiole up to 1 mm long or subsessile, spreading from base or outcurving to suberect, longer than internodes, deciduous above base without fading; lamina 8-22 x 1.5-11 mm, broadly ovate or elliptic to very narrowly elliptic-oblong or lanceolate or (lower) oblanceolate, margin recurved (plane in narrowest, young leaves), not cucullate, midrib prominent beneath or not, not glaucous, somewhat paler beneath, coriaceous; apex acute or apiculate to obtuse, base broadly cuneate or rounded to angustate, not sheathing, the pair free; basal veins 1(3), with or without 1-4 pairs of main ascending lateral branches, tertiary reticulation obscure or absent; laminar glands dense, not prominent. Inflorescence 1-c. 30-flowered, branching dichasial/monochasial or pseudo-dichotomous/sympodial or mixed, occasionally with 1-2 pairs of subsidiary branches from node immediately below; peduncle and pedicels 3-8 mm long, not incrassate upward; bracts foliar, gradually reduced. Flowers 10-16 mm in diam., stellate. Sepals 4-9.5 x 1.2-4 mm, unequal, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate or elliptic to oblong or oblanceolate, acute to acuminate; veins 3-5(7), not or distally branched, all becoming slightly prominent; glands all linear or punctiform in upper 1/3-2/3. Petals bright? to pale yellow, 6.5-10 x 3.5-8 mm, 1.3-1.9 x sepals, obovate; apiculus acuminate to obtuse; glands linear, distally interrupted or punctiform. Stamens 35-80, longest 4-6 mm long, 0.5-0.75 x petals, fascicles not distinct. Ovary 2-3 x 1-1.5 mm, ellipsoid; styles 3, 2.5-3.5 mm long, 1.2-1.7 x ovary, spreading-incurving; stigmas broadly capitate to peltate. Capsule 5-7 x 2.5-4 mm, narrowly ovoid to cylindric-ellipsoid, shorter than sepals. Seeds 0.6-0.8 mm; testa finely scalarif orm-reticulate.