Hypericum cuatrecasii Gleason

Shrub up to 2 m tall, spreading, with branches divergent, lateral, ± short (flowering) and long (extension), or pseudo-dichotomous. Stems yellow to reddish-brown, 4-lined and ancipitous when young, eventually terete, without epidermal wrinkles or emergences, cortex exfoliating in strips or flakes; internodes 2-5 mm long. Leaves sessile, spreading to deflexed, obscurely tetrastichous, deciduous almost at the base after turning brown, leaving narrow basal ring; lamina (2-)4-7 x (2-)3-7 mm, gradually increasing in size along shoot, broadly ovate to subcircular, plane or slightly saccate, with midrib prominent beneath, margin not or very narrowly hyaline, not glaucous, coriaceous; apex acute to rounded, base cordate-amplexicaul, shallowly sheathing, pairs perfoliately united; basal or near-basal veins 1-3, with midrib branching, tertiary reticulum obscure; laminar glands dense to sparse, large, not prominent. Inflorescence 1-flowered, terminal and on short lateral shoots, the whole shoot ± cylindrical, sometimes with pseudo-dichotomous branches; pedicel 4-7 mm long; upper leaves foliose. Flowers c. 20 mm in diam., stellate. Sepals 5-7 x 3-4 mm, the outer ovate, subcordiform, the inner ovate-oblong, subacute to rounded, cucullate, margin narrowly to broadly hyaline; veins 7-11, obscurely branching, midrib not prominent; glands linear, distally punctiform. Petals (bright?) yellow, 9-12.5 x 6.5-7.5 mm, c. 1.8 x sepals, obliquely obovate; apiculus obtuse; glands mostly striiform, distally punctiform. Stamens c. 120-150, longest 5.6 mm long,. c.0.5 x petals. Ovary 2.5-3 x l.5-2mm,broadlyovoid;styles3(4), 5-6.5 mm long, 2 x ovary, spreading-incurved; stigmas scarcely to narrowly capitate. Capsule c. 6 x 3.5 mm, ellipsoid, slightly exceeding sepals. Seeds not seen.