Hypericum millefolium Urb. & Ekman

Shrub up to c. 2 m tall, erect, juniperoid, with branches strict, pseudo-dichotomous (extension) and shorter, lateral (flowering). Stems 4-6-lined and ancipitous when young, persistently 4-angled and ancipitous until cortex exfoliates at first in strips between subfoliar ridges, then terete, fragile, green becoming pale grey; internodes 1-2 mm long. Leaves sessile, imbricate to curved-ascending, tetrastichous, eventually deciduous with attached cortex below after (?) fading; lamina 0.7-2 x 0.8-1 mm, lanceolate-triangular, incurved, markedly cucullate, midrib impressed beneath, margin narrowly hyaline, dull above, lucent or ± glaucous beneath, coriaceous; apex acute, pungent, base broad, subamplexicaul, pairs united to form narrow interfoliar ridge; basal vein 1 , unbranched; laminar glands obscure. Inflorescence 1-flowered, terminal and on numerous short lateral branches (branching or not), occasionally with pseudo-dichotomous branches from node below; pedicel absent or up to 0.5 mm long, incrassate upwards; upper leaves not transitional. Flowers 5-7 mm in diam., obconic. Sepals 3-3.5. x 1 mm, lanceolate, acute and incurved-cucullate to pungent; veins 5, unbranched, midrib ± prominent; glands linear, uninterrupted. Petals deep? yellow, 6-7 x 2.5-3 mm, 2 x sepals, oblanceolate; apiculus very acute; glands linear, distally subpunctiform. Stamens c. 50, longest 4-5 mm long, 0.6-0.7 x petals. Ovary 1.5x1 mm, broadly ovoid; styles 3, 4-5 mm long, c. 3 x ovary, diverging-incurved; stigmas narrow. Capsule 4x2 mm, ovoid, exceeding sepals. Seeds not seen.