Hypericum cavernicola L.B.Sm.

Subshrub, c. 0.2 m long, erect or ascending, branched from the base and above, with branches erect, lateral. Stems dull red- brown, 4-lined, and ancipitous when young, soon 2-lined, cortex exfoliating in strips; internodes 2-5 mm long, shorter than leaves. Leaves sessile, suberect to spreading; lamina 4-10 x 2-4 mm, ovate-triangular to oblong or (on lateral branches) lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, margin subrecurved, concolorous, coriaceous; apex acute to subacute, base cordate to truncate, free; basal veins 1(3), midrib not or obscurely branched, tertiary reticulum not visible; laminar glands dense, slightly prominent beneath. Inflorescence l(-ll)-flowered, dichasial/monochasial from 1-3 nodes, with lateral branches from nodes almost immediately below, the whole subcylindric; pedicels almost absent; bracts foliar or transitional; bracteoles appressed to calyx. Flowers c. 10 mm in diam., stellate; buds ovoid, subacute. Sepals 7-8 x 2 or 3.5-4 mm, very unequal, imbricate, 2 outer ovate to elliptic-oblong, distally recurved, 3 inner narrowly oblong-lanceolate, all acute to subacuminate; veins 9-11, 5 central or all prominent; glands linear, punctiform in distal c. ½. Petals yellow, 6-6.5 x 3.5-4  mm, shorter than sepals, narrowly obovate; apiculus acute; glands mostly punctiform. Stamens 25-30, obscurely 5-fasciculate, longest c. 4 mm long, c. 0.6 x petals. Ovary 2 x 1.5 mm, ovoid-subglobose; styles 3, 2.5 mm long, 1-2 x ovary, spreading; stigmas subcapitate. Capsule and seeds not seen.