Hypericum reptans Hook.f. & Thomson ex Dyer

Shrublet, prostrate or ascending to 0-3 m tall, forming clumps or mats up to 1 m in diam., sometimes pendent from rocks, with branching pinnatiform, branches root ing. Stems red to orange, 4-lined and ancipitous when young, eventually 4-lined to subterete; internodes 5-15 mm long, shorter than to exceeding leaves; bark reddish- brown, flaking. Leaves petiolate, with petiole 0.5-1.5 mm long; lamina 7-16(-22) x 2-9 mm, increasing in size and relative width up stem, elliptic or elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate or more rarely obovate, obtuse to rounded, margin plane, base cuneate, paler or ± glaucous beneath, chartaceous; venation: 1-2(3) pairs main laterals, with midrib branched distally and dense, often obscure tertiary reticulum; laminar glands medium to short streaks and dots; ventral glands absent. Inflorescence 1-flowered, with flowering branches from middle and upper parts of current stem; pedicels 4-8 mm long; bracts (uppermost leaf-pair) foliar, persistent. Flowers 20-30 mm in diam., ± deeply cyathiform; buds ovoid-ellipsoid, rounded. Sepals 6-14 x 2-5-6-5 mm, free, imbricate, unequal, reflexed in bud, spreading in fruit, oblong to obovate or oblanceolate, obtuse or rarely apiculate to rounded, with margin entire; midrib distinct, veins not prominent; laminar glands distal streaks and dots, relatively few. Petals deep golden yellow, sometimes flushed red, ± markedly incurved, 11-18 x 7-12 mm, c. 1-3-1-9 x sepals, broadly obovate, with apiculus subterminal, rounded, almost absent; margin entire, eglandular. Stamen fascicles each with c. 20-30 stamens, longest 4.5-6 mm long, 0.25-0.35 x petals; anthers golden yellow. Ovary 3.4 x 3.5 mm globose; styles (2-5) 3-4(4.5) mm long, about equalling ovary, free, erect, ± sharply outcurved near apex; stigmas subcapitate. Capsule 6-10 x 6-10 mm, globose to depressed-globose, indehiscent, ± baccate, brick-coloured when ripe. Seeds dark reddish-brown, 0-6-0-7 mm long, cylindric to cylindric-ellipsoid, narrowly carinate, very shallowly linear-foveolate.