Hypericum lancioides subsp. congestiflorum (Nomenclature)
Shrub 0.1-0.5 m tall, erect and bushy or decumbent and caespitose with branches strict, lateral (very rarely pinnate), spreading. Leaves sessile, ascending to imbricate, tetrastichous, linear. Inflorescence branches elongate, sympodial (from terminal node) and very short, lateral, with flowers solitary or in triads in a congested spiciform thyrse, immediately below terminal flower or with several intervening sterile nodes. Sepals oblong-lanceolate, with veins not or slightly prominent.
2870-4500 m.
Western Venezuela (Mérida), north-eastern and central Colombia (Santandér to Cauca).
In Venezuela there is a tendency in subsp. congestiflorum towards regular pyramidal branching, shorter glandular-punctate leaves, and smaller flowers, sometimes with 4 styles. All these characters foreshadow H. selaginella.