Hypericum lalandii Choisy

Perennial (? or annual) herb 0.04-0.55(-0.7) m tall, erect to decumbent, not rooting at the base, branching at or near base and sometimes distally, occasionally also elsewhere. Stems green, 4-angled, ancipitous above; internodes 5-60(-75) mm long, exceeding leaves. Leaves sessile, erect or usually ascending, not tetrastichous, persistent; lamina (3-)5-30(-36) x 1-7 mm, upper triangular-lanceolate or narrowly elliptic to linear, lower triangular-ovate to ovate or elliptic, plane or margin recurved, not cucullate, midrib prominent beneath and smooth, concolorous or paler beneath, sometimes glaucous, subcoriaceous to chartaceous; apex acute to obtuse or (lower leaves) rounded, margin entire, base subcordate- amplexicaul to cuneate, not sheathing, free; basal veins 1-7, only midrib sometimes obscurely branched, tertiary venation very obscure or absent; laminar glands dense, not or scarcely prominent. Inflorescence l-c. 50-flowered, terminal, branching regularly dichasial/monochasial, rarely with paired flowering branches from 1-3 nodes below; pedicels 1-15 mm long (in fruit), bracts and bracteoles linear to subulate. Flowers 6-22 mm in diam., stellate. Sepals 2-10 x 1.5-3 mm, subequal to equal, imbricate, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, acute; veins 3-7, unbranched; glands linear, distally punctiform. Petals yellow or apricot-yellow to orange, sometimes tinged red in bud, 3.5-12 x 1.5-5 mm, 1-2 x sepals, oblanceolate or oblong-spathulate to oblong; apiculus rounded to obsolete; glands absent. Stamens 40-60, not grouped, longest 2.5-7 mm long, c. 0.3-0.65 x petals. Ovary 1-2.5 x 0.6-1.5.mm, narrowly ovoid-conic to narrowly ovoid; styles (2)3-4, 1-4.5 mm long, 0.6-0.9(-l.2) x ovary; stigmas narrowly capitate to subclavate. Capsule 3.5-8 x 2.5-4 mm, narrowly ovoid to ovoid-conic (or subglobose – not in key), 0.8-2 x sepals. Seeds 0.6-1 mm long; testa finely scalariform.