Hypericum goyanesii Cuatrec.

Shrub 1-3 m tall, spreading, with branches ascending to divergent or pendent, lateral, short (flowering) and long (extension), not pseudo-dichotomous. Stems reddish-brown, 4-lined and ancipitous when young, sometimes wrinkled, eventually terete, cortex exfoliating in irregular flakes; internodes 2-8 mm long. Leaves sessile, spreading to deflexed, tetrastichous; lamina 2-5-5 x 1-5-3-5 mm, increasing in size[1] along shoot, oblong-ovate or ovate to triangular-ovate or subcircular, incurved-conduplicate or saccate, with midrib slightly prominent beneath or not, margin narrowly hyaline, not glaucous, chartaceous, deciduous almost at the base after turning brown, leaving narrow basal ring; apex subacute or apiculate-obtuse to rounded, base cordate-amplexicaul, pairs ± perfoliately united; basal vein 1, sometimes with 1-2 pairs of near-basal branches, rarely with visible tertiary reticulum; laminar glands dense to rather few, large, ± prominent on both sides. Inflorescence 1-flowered, terminal and on short lateral branches, the whole shoot cylindric to conical, without pseudo-dichotomous branches; pedicel 1-3.5 mm long; upper leaves foliose. Flowers 20-40 mm in diam., stellate. Sepals 5-8 x 2-3.5 mm, the outer oblong to ovate, often cordiform, the inner oblong to lanceolate, acute or obtuse to rounded, cucullate; margin narrowly hyaline; veins 7-11, branching and anastomosing distally, midrib distally incrassate; glands linear, distally punctiform. Petals bright yellow, 10-20 x 6-12 mm, 2-2-5 x sepals, obovate; apiculus obtuse; glands striiform and punctiform. Stamens c. 120-150, longest 5-6 mm long, c. 0.4-0.5 x petals. Ovary 2.5-3 x 1.5 mm, narrowly ovoid; styles 3, 5-8 mm long, c. 2-2.5 x ovary, spreading-incurved; stigmas narrowly capitate. Capsule 5-6 x 4 mm, broadly ellipsoid to subglobose, equalling or exceeding sepals. Seeds c. 1 mm long, ecarinate; testa finely scalariform-reticulate.