Hypericum terrae-firmae Sprague & L.Riley

Shrub or small tree, 1-2 m tall, erect, with branches strict, pseudo-dichotomous or lateral. Stems orange-brown, 4-lined when young, soon terete, without corky wrinkles, cortex exfoliating in strips; internodes 4-6 mm long. Leaves sessile, free from the base, spreading to subimbricate and tetrastichous, deciduous at the base without fading; lamina 16-30 x 4-6 mm, narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic, plane, not cucullate or carinate, concolorous, not or slightly glaucous, chartaceous to thinly coriaceous; apex acute, base narrowly cuneate to subangustate, not sheathing, pairs free; basal veins 7, subparallel-sided, with short lateral branches,tertiary reticulation not visible; laminar glands dense, not prominent. Inflorescence 1- flowered, with pseudo-dichotomous branches from 1-2 nodes below; pedicel absent or very short; upper leaves transitional. Flowers 40-60 mm in diam., stellate. Sepals 14-22 x 3-7 mm, narrowly oblong, acute; veins 15, dichotomising and reticulate distally, with midrib prominent; glands linear. Petals bright yellow, 20-30 x 7-12 mm, c. 1-3 x sepals, oblanceolate; apiculus acute; glands linear, mostly uninterrupted. Stamens c. 250, longest 9-11 mm long, c. 0.3-0.4 x petals. Ovary (2.5-)3-4.5 X 2-2.5 mm, ± narrowly ovoid; styles 5, 5-7 mm long, 1.4-3 x ovary, erect, outcurved below apex; stigmas small. Capsule 8-10 x 5-7 mm, broadly ovoid, shorter than sepals. Seeds c. 1 mm long, not or shallowly carinate; testa finely scalariform-reticulate .