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Nomenclature
Hypericum galinum S.F.Blake
Nomenclature
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Section: sect. BrathysSubsection: subsect. Spachium
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Synonyms: 2
Media
DIAGNOSTIC DESCRIPTION
Shrublet 0.2-0.4 m tall, with taproot, fastigiate, erect; branches lateral and sometimes basal, often opposite, strict, not rooting. Stems 4-lined, reddish-brown, ancipitous, and densely gland-dotted when young, eventually terete, cortex exfoliating in strips; internodes 3-20 mm long. Leaves sessile, erect to appressed, imbricate, shorter to longer than internodes, persistent; lamina (5-)8-15(-20) x 1-2 mm, linear to narrowly elliptic-oblong, margin recurved or plane to subincurved, retorse-denticulate to (rarely) subentire, not or slightly cucullate, midrib prominent or not and sometimes denticulate beneath, smooth, concolorous, not or slightly glaucous, coriaceous; apex acute to subacute, base parallel-sided or slightly broadened, free; basal vein 1, not or obscurely branched, tertiary reticulation absent; laminar glands dense, not prominent or slightly so beneath. Inflorescence 1-12-flowered, branching dichasial/monochasial, often with subsidiary inflorescences or inflorescence branches from node(s) below; peduncle and pedicels 1.5-3 mm long, not incrassate upwards; bracts and bracteoles linear-subulate. Flowers 8-10 mm in diam., stellate. Sepals 2.5-4 x 0.8-1.2 mm, unequal, oblong-spathulate or narrowly oblong to lanceolate, obtuse to acute, cucullate; veins 3-5(7), unbranched, all becoming prominent; glands linear. Petals bright yellow, tinged reddish, 4-6 x 2-2.5 mm, c. 1.5 x sepals, oblanceolate; apiculus acute; glands few, punctiform. Stamens 10-14, longest 3-4 mm long, c. 0.7 x petals, fascicles 3, subdistinct. Ovary c. 1-5 x 1 mm, narrowly ellipsoid; styles 3, 1-1.5 mm long, c. 0.7-1 x ovary, suberect; stigmas capitate. Capsule 5-6 x 2-2.5 mm, narrowly ovoid-cylindric, acute, 2-3 x as long as sepals, sometimes with 1-2 vesicles. Seeds 0.5 mm long, ecarinate; testa finely scalariform.