Hypericum hookerianum Wight & Arn.

Shrub 0.3-2 1 m tall, bushy, round-topped, with branches erect to spreading. Stems red to yellowish, 4-lined and ancipitous when young and usually soon terete, or always terete; internodes 12-60 mm long, shorter than to exceeding leaves; bark grey-brown. Leaves petiolate, with petiole 1-4 mm long; lamina (17-)25-78 x (7-)10-32 mm, narrowly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate to broadly ovate, acute or obtuse to apiculate or rounded, margin plane, base narrowly cuneate to subcordate, paler or ± glaucous beneath, chartaceous; venation: (2)3-4 pairs main laterals, with midrib pinnately branched above, without visible tertiary reticulum; laminar glands short to very short streaks and dots; ventral glands absent or ± dense. Inflorescence 1-5-flowered, from apical node, subcorymbiform; pedicels 3-16 mm long; bracts lanceolate or narrowly oblong to obovate-spathulate, deciduous. Flowers 30-60 mm in diam., ± deeply cyathiform; buds broadly ovoid to subglobose, broadly obtuse to rounded. Sepals 5-10 x 4-8 mm, free, (often broadly) imbricate, subequal, erect in bud and fruit, obovate or obovate-spathulate to subcircular or elliptic or oblong- elliptic, rounded or rarely rounded-apiculate, with margin entire or rarely very finely eroded-denticulate; midrib visible or ± obscure, veins often prominent, especially in fruit; laminar glands linear, sometimes interrupted near apex, numerous. Petals deep golden to pale yellow, not tinged red, markedly incurved, 15-30 x 15-25 mm, c. 3 x sepals, broadly obovate to subcircular, with apiculus subterminal, obtuse to rounded, or absent; margin entire, eglandular. Stamen fascicles each with 60-80 stamens, longest 5-9 mm long, 0-25-0-35 x petals; anthers golden yellow, sometimes tinged red ? Ovary 5-7(-8) x 4-5(-6) mm, broadly ovoid, acute; styles 2-4(-7) mm long, 0.35-0.7(-0-9) x ovary, free, gradually outcurved towards apex; stigmas narrowly capitate. Capsule 9-17 x 7-12 mm, ovoid to ovoid-conic. Seeds dark reddish-brown, 0.7-1 mm long, cylindric, not or scarcely carinate, shallowly linear- reticulate.