Hypericum dogonbadanicum Assadi

Shrub up to 1 m tall, sometimes pendulous from cliffs, bushy, with branches ascending. Stems 4-angled and greenish-grey at first, later terete and brown; internodes 10-22 mm long, shorter than leaves; bark dark brown. Leaves sessile; lamina 10-16 ´ 7-12 mm, broadly elliptic-subcircular to circular, rounded, margin strongly undulate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, concolorous, glaucous, coriaceous, lower ones soon deciduous; venation obscure; laminar glands few, punctiform, resinous; marginal and intramarginal glands dense, amber, resinous. Inflorescence 1-flowered, with undeveloped buds in axil of each bracteole; pedicels c. 7 mm long; bracteoles 3 mm long, triangular, acute, membranous. Flowers c. 35 mm in diam., stellate; buds not seen. Sepals c. 5 ´ 3.5-4 mm, imbricate, ovate to ovate-circular, obtuse to acute or shortly mucronate, margin entire or with few scattered small reddish glands on cilia; laminar glands pale, linear; submarginal and marginal glands absent. Petals yellow, not tinged ?, persistent, unequal, c. 15 ´ 10 mm, c. 3 ´ sepals, oblong-spathulate to obovate, with apiculus rounded, margin entire, eglandular; laminar glands pale, linear. Stamen fascicles persistent, each with c. 20 stamens, longest c. 10 mm long, 0.7 ´ petals, with filaments slender, basally united. Ovary not seen at flowering stage; styles c. 5.5 mm, almost completely coherent. Capsule 5 ´ 4 mm long, ovoid. Seeds brown, 1.3 mm long, curved-cylindric, carinate ?; testa obscurely reticulate.