Hypericum wurdackii N. Robson

Shrub 0.15-0.3 m tall, several-stemmed, erect, with branches strict, pseudo- dichotomous and sometimes lateral. Stems orange-brown, completely enclosed by leaves when young, eventually terete, cortex exfoliating irregularly; internodes 1 mm long. Leaves sessile, imbricate, markedly tetrastichous with the vertical rows winglike, not or scarcely outcurving, not twisted, deciduous above the base after turning brown; lamina 9-14 x 1-2 mm, linear-acerose, incurved-conduplicate, cucullate, carinate wholly or only at apex and base, margin narrowly golden-hyaline especially towards base, otherwise concolorous, yellow-green, not glaucous, chartaceous; apex sharply acute, base broadened, markedly sheathing, pairs united to form deep interfohar ridge; basal vein 1 , unbranched; laminar glands dense, invisible below in mature leaf. Inflorescence 1-flowered, with pseudo-dichotomous branches from node below; pedicel 2-3 mm long, not incrassate upwards; upper leaves not transitional. Flowers 20-25 mm in diam., stellate. Sepals 10-12 x 3-4 mm, lanceolate-acerose, sharply acute, not cucullate, with golden-hyaline margin; veins 7, unbranched, not or scarcely prominent; glands linear, punctiform in upper half. Petals golden (?) yellow, 15-18 x 7-8 mm, c. 1.5 x sepals, narrowly obovate; apiculus acute; glands linear, distally interrupted. Stamens c. 100, longest 8-9 mm long, c. 0.5 x petals. Ovary c. 2.5 x 1.5 mm, ellipsoid; styles 3, 4-5 mm long, 1.7-2 x ovary, outcurved-ascending; stigmas narrow. Capsule c. 6 x 3.5 mm, ellipsoid, shorter than sepals. Seeds not seen.