Hypericum lagarocaule N. Robson

Shrub 0.5-1.5 m tall, with branches arching to spreading, slender, often rather lanky. Stems orange, 4-lined, not ancipitous, sometimes becoming 2-lined or terete; internodes 10-45 mm long, shorter than leaves[ch]; bark purplish-brown. Leaves narrowly petiolate, with petiole 1-1.5 mm long; lamina 25-50x 8-30 mm, ovate-elliptic or broadly oblong-ovate, obtuse to rounded, margin plane, base narrowly to broadly cuneate, paler beneath, not glaucous, chartaceous; venation: 3(4) pairs main laterals, lower free or all looped, with subsidiaries and intermediates sometimes almost as strong, but without visible tertiary reticulum; laminar glands dots and short or very short streaks; ventral glands absent or rarely (Hunan) dense. Inflorescence 1-10(-15)-flowered, from apical node; pedicels 6-10(-14) mm long; bracts reduced, narrowly elliptic to linear, persistent (?). Flowers 30-50 mm, in diam., shallowly cyathiform; buds broadly (or rarely narrowly) ovoid, acute or apiculateto obtuse. Sepals 6-9 x 4-5 mm, free or almost so, imbricate, equal or subequal, erect or apically outcurved in bud, erect or suberect and enlarging in fruit, ovate-lanceolate, acute to obtuse, with margin entire to minutely and ± irregularly denticulate; midrib often obscure, veins not prominent; laminar glands linear, sometimes distally interrupted, c. 12-14. Petals golden yellow, ± shallowly incurved, 16-24 x 10-18 mm, 2.5-3 x sepals, ± narrowly to rather broadly obovate, with apiculus subterminal, rounded or obsolete; entire or inner margin minutely glandular-denticulate. Stamen fascicles each with 40-45 stamens, longest 12-18 mm, long, 0.6-0.7 x petals; anthers yellow. Ovary 5-8 x 3-5 mm, narrowly to broadly ovoid; styles 4-5 mm long, 0.65-0.7 x ovary, free, rather slender, suberect to gradually outcurved, more distinctly outcurved distally; stigmas scarcely capitate. Capsule 10-14 x 8-11 mm, ovoid. Seeds purplish-brown, c. 1-4 mm long, narrowly cylindric, shortly apiculate, shallowly carinate, shallowly linear-reticulate.