Hypericum pedersenii N. Robson

Wiry shrublet up to c. 0.18 m tall, ascending from prostrate and diffusely branched base, not rooting, with branches erect or divaricate-ascending, lateral or rarely pseudo-dichotomous, numerous, soon naked below. Stems 4-lined and ancipitous when young, eventually terete, cortex exfoliating in strips; internodes 3.9-5 mm long, equalling or exceeding leaves. Leaves sessile, appressed; lamina 3-4 x 0.5-0.8 mm, acerose, incurved, concolorous, glaucous, subcoriaceous; apex acute, base subamplexicaul, not decurrent, free; basal vein 1, midrib unbranched; laminar glands rather dense, impressed beneath. Inflorescence 1-3-flowered, dichasial/monochasial with lateral branches from 12 or more nodes below, the whole narrowly pyramidal; primary pedicels 0.5-1 mm long; bracts and bracteoles linear-subulate. Flowers 8-9 mm in diam., stellate; buds ovoid, subacute. Sepals 2-2.5 x 0.5-1 mm, subequal, not imbricate, narrowly lanceolate, acute; veins 3, all or only midrib prominent; glands linear, punctiform in distal ¼. Petals apricot? yellow, c. 4-5 x 2 mm, 1.8-2.2 x sepals, oblong-oblanceolate; apiculus acute; glands linear or mostly striiform. Stamens 30-35, obscurely 3- fascicled, longest 2.5 mm long,0.55 x petals. Ovary 1.5 x c. 0.8 mm, narrowly ovoid; styles 3, 1.5 mm long, equalling ovary, outcurving; stigmas scarcely enlarged. Capsule c. 3 x 2 mm (?immature), narrowly ovoid-pyramidal. Seeds not seen.