Hypericum podocarpoides N. Robson

Shrub 0-45-1-2 m tall, with branches spreading or pendulous. Stems 4-lined and ancipitous when young, eventually terete; internodes 5-15 mm long, shorter than leaves; bark grey-brown. Leaves sessile or with very short flat petiole; lamina (20-)25-80 x 4-20 mm, linear to narrowly lanceolate or narrowly oblong-lanceolate (broader towards the inflorescence), sharply acute to subacuminate, margin plane to recurved, sometimes reddish, subincrassate, base auriculate-truncate or subcordate to rounded, discolorous, densely glaucous beneath, coriaceous; venation: 2-3 pairs main laterals with numerous midrib branches distally, without visible tertiary reticulum; laminar glands mostly undulating lines and streaks (crossing the veins) with some dots; ventral glands sparse or absent. Inflorescence 5-13(-20)-flowered, from 1-2(3) nodes, subcorymbiform to broadly pyramidal, or sometimes pseudo-umbellate owing to the very short apical internode, occasionally with subsidiary branches below; pedicels 4-25 mm long; bracts oblong or ovate to lanceolate, those on main stem foliar and usually in a pseudo-whorl, others reduced, deciduous. Flowers (25-)35-50 mm in diam., stellate; buds ovoid, acute. Sepals 8-14 x 3-6 mm, free, imbricate, subequal, spreading in bud and fruit, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, acute to subacute, with margin entire or slightly irregular to eroded-denticulate towards apex; midrib of outer 1-3 visible, veins not prominent; laminar glands numerous, linear or interrupted. Petals bright yellow, not tinged red, spreading, 13-28 x 8-12 mm, 1.6-2 x sepals, ± narrowly obovate, with apiculus very acute to almost absent, lateral; margin entire, eglandular. Stamen fascicles each with c. 30 stamens, longest 8-15 mm long, 0.5-0.65 x petals; anthers bright yellow. Ovary 4.5-6 x 2.5-4 mm, narrowly to rather broadly ellipsoid; styles 3.5-6.5 mm long, 1-1.2 x ovary, free, suberect to divergent, outcurved near apex; stigmas capitate. Capsule 8-13 x 7-10 mm, ellipsoid to ovoid. Seeds dark reddish-brown, 0-9-1 mm long, narrowly cylindric, very narrowly carinate, very shallowly linear-reticulate.