Hypericum styphelioides subsp. styphelioides (Nomenclature)
Shrub 0.3-2 m tall. Leaves 8-25 x 4-8 mm, oblanceolate to narrowly obovate, plane, ± densely glaucous, ± thickly coriaceous, spreading to densely imbricate; apex shortly acuminate; basal veins 7-9(-11); glands not usually prominent. Flowers 15-50(-70) mm in diam. Sepals elliptic to obovate, acute or obtuse-apiculate to obtuse, 9-17-veined. Petals 10-22 mm long. Styles 5, 3-5 mm long.
In pine forest or savannah sand or in wet places; lowland.
Cuba: Isla de Pinos, Las Villas and Pinar del Rio.
Subsp. styphelioides forms two incompletely correlated clines eastward, showing reduction in size and increasing leaf-imbrication. The only specimen seen from Las Villas (Léon & Roca 7928) is somewhat intermediate between subsp. styphelioides and subsp. moaense.