Hypericum globuliferum  

Perennial herb with stems 0.04-0.35 m long, prostrate or pendent to ascending, sometimes rooting at the base, branches spreading from the base and sometimes pinnately ascending distally. Stems green, 4-angled, ancipitous above; internodes 5-30 mm long, exceeding leaves. Leaves sessile or very shortly petiolate, erect or usually ascending to spreading, not tetrastichous, persistent; lamina 3-12 x 1-5 mm linear-oblong or lanceolate to (i) ovate or oblong-ovate or broadly elliptic or (ii) oblanceolate-spathulate to suborbicular, plane or margin recurved to indurated, not cucullate, midrib slightly prominent beneath and smooth, rather densely to not glaucous beneath, coriaceous to chartaceous; apex obtuse to rounded, margin entire to finely eroded-denticulate, base cordate-amplexicaul to cuneate, not sheathing, free; basal veins 1-5, unbranched, tertiary venation obscure or absent; laminar glands dense, not prominent. Inflorescence 1-flowered or secondarily dichasial/monochasial (2-5-flowered), some- times with pinnate flowering branches to near base of stem; primary pedicels 4-25 mm long, not incrassate; bracts foliar. Flowers 6-11 mm in diam., stellate. Sepals 2.5-9 x 0.7-3 mm, elliptic or oblong to linear or to oblanceolate-spathulate or obovate, acute to rounded; veins l-5(-11) unbranched; glands basally linear or all punctiform. Petals deep yellow to orange, not tinged red in bud, 3-7 x 1-4 mm, about equalling or shorter than sepals, oblong-oblanceolate to obovate or elliptic, apiculus minute, subacute, or obsolete; glands absent. Stamens 16-30, not grouped or obscurely 3-fascicled, longest 2-4 mm long, 0.5-0.75 x petals. Ovary 1.1-2.5 x 0.8-1.1mm, narrowly ovoid to subglobose; styles 3, 0.8-2.5 mm long, 0.6-1 x ovary; stigmas narrowly clavate. Capsule 2.5-4 x 2-3 mm, cylindric-ellipsoid to subglobose, shorter than sepals. Seeds c. 0.7 mm long; testa finely scalariform to scalariform-reticulate.