Hypericum pimeleoides Planch. & Linden ex Triana & Planch.

Shrub 0.4-1.5 m tall, erect, with branches strict, pseudo-dichotomous and occasionally lateral. Stems yellow-brown to orange-brown, 4-lined and compressed when young, the subfoliar ridge broad, soon terete, cortex exfoliating in strips; internodes 3-6 mm long. Leaves sessile or with broad petiole to l-5(-2) mm long, densely imbricate and scarcely outcurving to laxly imbricate and narrowly spreading, ± markedly tetrastichous, deciduous above petiole without fading; lamina 10-24 x 3.5-10.5 mm, broadly to narrowly elliptic, plane, not or scarcely cucullate, midrib not prominent beneath, margin not distinct or rarely indurated, concolorous, glaucous, coriaceous; apex acute or subapiculate to obtuse, base cuneate to angustate, sheathing or not, pairs united to form narrow interfoliar ridge; basal or near-basal veins (3)5-9, flabellate, branching and often visibly anastomosing distally, tertiary reticulation obscure or apparently absent; laminar glands dense, often obscure beneath. Inflorescence 1-flowered, with pseudo-dichotomous branches from one or two nodes below; pedicel 4-12 mm long, incrassate upwards; upper leaves not transitional. Flowers 18-35 mm in diam., stellate to subcyathiform. Sepals (7)10-14 x (2)3-8 mm, elliptic-subcircular to elliptic-oblong or rarely oblong, acute to subacute; veins (5)7-11, dichotomising distally, with midrib not or slightly prominent; glands linear, distally punctiform. Petals bright yellow, 10-22 x 4-10 mm, c. 1.3-1.5 x sepals, obovate; apiculus acute; glands linear, distally punctiform. Stamens c. 40-90, longest 5-10 mm long, c. 0.5 x petals. Ovary (2.5)3-4 x 2-2.5 mm, ovoid-ellipsoid to subglobose; styles 3-4, (2)3-7 mm long, 1-1.75 x ovary, outcurving to diverging, stout; stigmas scarcely to broadly capitate. Capsule 5-8 x 4-6 mm, cylindric-ellipsoid, equalling sepals. Seeds c. 1-2 mm long, ecarinate; testa finely scalariform.