Hypericum monogynum L.

Shrub 0-5-1-3 m tall, bushy or usually with branches lax, spreading. Stems red, 2(4)-lined and ancipitous when young, soon terete; internodes 10-50 mm long, shorter than leaves; bark orange-brown. Leaves sessile or with petiole up to 1-5 mm long; lamina 20-112 x 10-41 mm, oblanceolate or elliptic to oblong or more rarely lanceolate to ovate-triangular or ovate, acute to rounded, often minutely apiculate, margin plane, base cuneate to rounded or in upper ones sometimes truncate to cordate, paler beneath, not glaucous, chartaceous; venation: 4-6 pairs main laterals, branched, not always distinct from the midrib branches, with tertiary reticulum dense, conspicuous; laminar glands very small, punctiform; ventral glands absent. Inflorescence l-15(-30)-flowered, from apical node, loosely subcorymbiform, some- times also from uppermost 1-3 nodes, rarely with 1-2 pairs of subsidiary branches; pedicels 8-28(50) mm long bracts small, linear-lanceolate, caducous. Flowers 30-65 mm in diam., stellate; buds ovoid, subacute to obtuse. Sepals 4.5-13 x 1.5-6 mm, imbricate, equal or unequal, ± spreading in bud and fruit, broadly or narrowly elliptic or oblong to lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute to rounded, margin entire; midrib distinct, other veins not prominent; laminar glands ± numerous, basally linear to striiform, punctiform towards apex. Petals golden yellow to lemon-yellow, not tinged red, spreading, 20-34 x 12-20 mm, 2.5-4.5 x sepals, triangular-obovate, with apiculus lateral, acute to rounded or obsolete; margin entire, eglandular. Stamen fascicles each with 25-35 stamens, longest 18-32 mm long, almost equalling petals; anthers yellow to pale orange. Ovary 2.5-5 x 2-5-3 mm, ovoid or ovoid-conic to subglobose; styles 12-20 mm, long, c. 3-5-5 x ovary, united almost to the apices then outcurved or very rarely free up to halfway; stigmas small. Capsule 6-10 x 4-7 mm, broadly ovoid or rarely ovoid-conic to subglobose. Seeds dark reddish- brown, c. 2 mm, long, cylindric, narrowly carinate, shallowly linear-reticulate to linear-foveolate.