Hypericum kawaranum N. Robson

Perennial herb c. 0.5 m tall, erect from creeping, rooting (and branching?) base, with stems few and caespitose?, not branching below inflorescence. Stems slightly 2-lined, not becoming terete?, eglandular; internodes 30–70 mm, slightly shorter to longer than leaves. Leaves sessile; lamina 35–40 × 20–25 mm, ovate to oblong-ovate, paler beneath?, chartaceous; apex subapiculate to rounded, margin plane, base shallowly cordate-amplexicaul; venation: 3 pairs of main laterals from lower quarter of midrib; tertiary reticulation dense, scarcely visible above; laminar glands black and sometimes pale, punctiform, sparse; intramarginal glands black, dense. Inflorescence c. 20-flowered, from 3 nodes, lax, with one pair of lower branches, the whole broadly cylindric; pedicels c. 3 mm; bracts ovate, bracteoles ovate to linear-lanceolate. Flowers 20–22(–25?) mm in diam., stellate; buds broadly ovoid, obtuse. Sepals 5, unequal, 4–6 × 1.5–3 mm, oblong to ovate, rounded to obtuse, entire; veins 5, branching and reticulating; laminar glands pale, few, striiform to punctiform or absent; intramarginal glands black, dense to irregular. Petals 5, golden? yellow, not tinged red, 9.5–12 × 4–6.5 mm, 2–2.5 × sepals, ovate-oblong to elliptic, rounded, entire without apiculus; laminar glands pale, linear to striiform; marginal glands black, few, subapical, or absent. Stamens c. 35–40, ‘3’-fascicled, longest c. 7–9 mm, c. 0.75–0.8 × petals; anther gland black. Ovary 2.5–3 × c. 2 mm, ovoid; styles 3, free, spreading, 4.2–6.5 mm, c. 1.5–2 ×ovary; stigmas narrowly capitate. Capsule not seen.