Hypericum caespitosum Cham. & Schltdl.

Perennial or annual(?) herb 0.05-0.2 m tall, decumbent to prostrate but not rooting, much branched from the base and often forming loose cushions, lateral branches sometimes present below inflorescence, erect to ascending, not naked below. Stems green to vinous red, 4-lined and ancipitous when young, soon 2-lined, cortex persistent; internodes 1-17 mm long, upper ones often exceeding leaves. Leaves sessile, usually erect; lamina 3-18 x 0.4-1 mm, linear, margin plane to subrecurved, paler beneath, not glaucous, chartaceous; apex rounded, base parallel-sided to rounded or narrowly cuneate, sometimes subamplexicaul but not decurrent or forming V, free; basal vein 1, unbranched or with up to 3 pairs of main laterals, tertiary reticulum absent; laminar glands dense, not prominent. Inflorescence 1-7-flowered, dichasial/monochasial, without accessory branches, usually with lateral branches from up to 9 nodes below, the whole subcorymbiform to narrowly cylindric; primary pedicels 2-7 mm long; bracts and bracteoles linear. Flowers 5-9 mm in diam., stellate; buds ellipsoid, rounded. Sepals 2.5-5 x 0.6-1.3 mm, equal, imbricate, linear-lanceolate to narrowly elliptic or rarely narrowly oblanceolate, acute; veins 5, not or only midrib prominent; glands linear, distally interrupted to punctiform. Petals yellow, always (?) tinged or veined red outside, (4?-)5-7 x 1-1.5 mm, 1.5-2 x sepals, oblong-oblanceolate to narrowly oblong; apiculus obsolete; glands linear. Stamens 10-35, irregularly grouped, longest 3.5-5 mm long, c. 0.7 x petals. Ovary 1-1.5 x 0.6-1 mm, cylindric-ellipsoid; styles 3, 0.8-1.5 mm long, 0.8-1 x ovary, spreading; stigmas broadly capitate. Capsule 2.5-5.2 x 1.5-2.8 mm, cylindric-ellipsoid to cylindric, apex rounded, 1-1.3 x sepals. Seeds 0.6-0.7 mm long; testa finely ribbed-scalariform.