Hypericum radicans N. Robson

Shrublet with branches ascending from a rooting base, lateral. Stems orange-brown, 4-lined and ancipitous when young, soon terete, cortex exfoliating in strips; internodes 1.5-4 mm long. Leaves sessile, appressed to ascending, eventually outcurving, persistent; lamina 7-9 x 1.3-1-4 mm, linear-oblong or linear-elliptic to oblanceolate, plane, not cucullate, not carinate, concolorous, not glaucous, chartaceous; apex acute, slightly cucullate, margin plane, base narrowly cuneate, not sheathing, free or almost so; basal vein 1, un-branched, tertiary reticulation absent; laminar glands dense, not prominent. Inflorescence 1-flowered, branching pseudo- dichotomous? Flowersc. 6 mm in diam. Sepals 3.5 x 0.9 mm, lanceolate, acute; veins 3, laterals branched above, all prominent; glands linear, distally punctiform. Petals c.4 x 2 mm, c. 1.2 x sepals, oblanceolate, apiculus obsolete; glands interrupted-striiform. Stamens ?, longest c. 2 mm long, c. 0.5 x petals. Ovary not seen; styles 3?, c. 1 mm long; stigmas broadly capitate. Capsule and seeds unknown.