Hypericum cordifolium Choisy

Shrub 1-1-3 m tall, with branches erect to arching or pendent. Stems 2- or partially 4-lined and ancipitous when young, soon terete; internodes 7-20 mm long, shorter than leaves; bark dark grey. Leaves sessile; lamina 18-40(-62) x 5-16(-23) mm, elliptic-oblong to oblong, apiculate or shortly acuminate, 80margin plane, base rounded to shallowly cordate-auriculate, paler beneath, ± glaucous on both sides, subcoriaceous; venation: 3 pairs main laterals, with intermediates and midrib branches distally , without visible tertiary reticulum ; laminar glands streaks and a few dots; ventral glands dense. Inflorescence 1-7-flowered, from apical node, and with 1-3-flowered lateral branches from up to 12 nodes, rounded-pyramidal to cylindric, sometimes with subsidiary flowering branches below; pedicels 7-14 mm long; bracts ovate, persistent. Flowers 30-50 mm in diam., stellate; buds narrowly conic to cylindric, acute. Sepals 8-13 x 3-5 mm, free, imbricate, subequal to rather unequal, erect to ascending in bud and fruit, lanceolate or rarely ovate or ovate-elliptic, sharply acute to apiculate, with margin entire; midrib obscure or not visible, veins not prominent; laminar glands numerous, linear. Petals bright yellow, sometimes tinged red, spreading, (15-)20-22 x 7-12 mm, 1.5-2.5 x sepals, narrowly obovate to oblanceolate, with apiculus acute, subterminal; margin entire, eglandular. Stamen fascicles each with c. 25 stamens, longest c. 15 mm long, 0.65-0.75 x petals; anthers bright yellow. Ovary 4.6-5 x 2.5-4.5 mm, ellipsoid; styles 7.5-12 mm long, 1.8-2.5 x ovary, free, erect, sometimes outcurved near apex; stigmas capitate. Capsule 8-10 - 5-6 mm, ± broadly ovoid. Seeds dark reddish-brown, c. 0-9 mm long, narrowly cylindric, not carinate, shallowly linear- reticulate.