Hypericum teretiusculum A.St.-Hil.

Subshrub 0.4-1 m tall, erect, 1-stemmed or branched near base, with branches ascending-pyramidal or spreading, lateral only. Stems dull red-brown, 4-lined when young, soon 2-lined to subterete, cortex exfoliating in strips; internodes 9-70 mm long, usually exceeding leaves. Leaves sessile, spreading; lamina (10-)14-27 x 5-17 mm, broadly elliptic to broadly ovate, plane or margin recurved, subconcolorous, not glaucous, coriaceous; apex acute to rounded, base broadly cuneate to cordate, free or shortly connate; basal veins 3-5, midrib pinnately branched, tertiary reticulum dense; laminar glands rather dense to sparse, prominent beneath or obscure. Inflorescence (3-)10--flowered, dichasial/monochasial from 1-2 nodes, sometimes with lateral branches from nodes immediately below, the whole corymbiform to broadly paniculate; primary pedicels 3-4 mm long; bracts linear- lanceolate, acute. Flowers 10-12 mm in diam., stellate; buds ovoid-triangular, acute. Sepals 5-7 x 2-2.5 mm, subequal, imbricate, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, subacuminate; veins 5-7, midrib prominent; glands linear, sometimes distally punctiform. Petals yellow, 7-10 x 3.5-4.5 mm, c. 1.4 x sepals, oblong-obovate; apiculus subacute; glands linear to elongate-punctiform. Stamens c. 40-70, obscurely 5-fascicled, longest 3-4 mm long, c. 0.5 x petals. Ovary c. 2 x 1 mm, ovoid-ellipsoid; styles 5, 2-2.5 mm long, c. 1-1.2 x ovary, spreading; stigmas subclavate. Capsule 4-5 x 3.5-4 mm, ovoid-subglobose, obtuse to shortly rostrate, about equalling sepals. Seeds 0.7-0.8 mm long; testa ribbed-scalariform.