Hypericum ekmanii A.H. Lioger

Shrub up to 0.75 m tall, erect, forming thickets, with branches ascending, pseudo-dichotomous and sometimes lateral. Stems orange-brown, 4-lined and compressed when young, the subfoliar ridges broad, soon 2-lined, eventually terete, cortex exfoliating at first in strips between subfoliar ridges; internodes 2-4 mm long. Leaves with short petiole (0.5-1 mm long), densely spreading or imbricate, tetrastichous, deciduous above petiole without fading; lamina 6-10 x 2-4 mm, elliptic, plane to slightly concave, scarcely cucullate, midrib not or slightly prominent beneath, margin incurved, not incrassate, concolorous, not glaucous or slightly so beneath, subcoriaceous; apex acuminate to apiculate, base angustate to cuneate, the petioles not sheathing but united to form very narrow interfoliar ridge; basal vein 1, with 1 short near-basal pair of branches or unbranched; laminar glands dense, visible on both sides. Inflorescence 1 -flowered, with pseudo-dichotomous branches from node below; pedicel 3-10 mm long, not incrassate upwards; upper leaves not transitional. Flowers c. 12-15 mm in diam., stellate. Sepals 5-6 x 1-2-5 mm, unequal to equal narrowly oblong to oblanceolate-spathulate, acute to subacuminate; veins 3, unbranched, with midrib not prominent, glands linear, punctiform in distal ¼. Petals deep? yellow, 8-10 x 2-4 mm, c. 1.5 x sepals, oblong-oblanceolate; apiculus subacute; glands nearly all punctiform. Stamens c. 80, longest 5-6 mm long, c. 0.6 x petals. Ovary 2x1 mm, narrowly ovoid; styles 3, 5-6 mm long, 2.5-3 x ovary, diverging-incurved; stigmas clavate. Capsule 3-6 x 2-3 mm, ellipsoid, shorter than sepals. Seeds 1.2 mm long, ecarinate; testa finely ribbed-scalariform.