Hypericum kimurae N. Robson

Perennial herb 0.2–0.3 m tall, erect to ascending from woody branching base, with stems usually caespitose, unbranched below inflorescence. Stems narrowly 2–4-lined at first, soon 2-lined to terete, eglandular; internodes 15–25 mm, shorter than (or basal ones exceeding) leaves. Leaves sessile; lamina 20–35 × 10–20 mm, oblong-ovate or oblong to elliptic, slightly paler beneath, chartaceous; apex subacute to rounded, margin plane, base shallowly cordate to rounded or broadly cuneate; venation: 3(4) pairs of main laterals from lower quarter to 2/5 of midrib; tertiary reticulation dense, more visible beneath; laminar glands black, sparse to rather dense and pale, sparse, all punctiform; intramarginal glands black, dense. Inflorescence 1–7(–11)-flowered, from 1–3 nodes, lax, sometimes with branches from one node below, the whole subcorymbiform; pedicels 2.5–3.5 mm; bracts reduced-foliar, bracteoles linear. Flowers 15–20 mm in diam., stellate; buds ellipsoid, rounded. Sepals 5, subequal, 3–4.5 × 0.8–1.3 mm, narrowly oblong to linear-lanceolate, rounded or usually obtuse to acute, entire; veins 3–5, unbranched; laminar glands pale, linear to punctiform and occasionally a few black, linear (basal) or striiform to punctiform; marginal glands black, few, irregular or absent. Petals 5, bright? yellow, not tinged red, 11–14 × 5–6 mm, 3–4 × sepals, elliptic to oblong, rounded, entire; laminar glands pale and/or occasionally black, linear to striiform and apically punctiform; marginal glands absent. Stamens c. 40, ‘3’-fascicled, longest 10–11 mm, 0.75–0.9 × petals; anther gland black. Ovary 3–4 × 2.5 mm, ellipsoid; styles 3, free, basally incurved, 6–7 mm, 1.8–2 × ovary; stigmas narrow. Capsule 5 × 3–3.5 mm, c. 1.2 × sepals (immature), cylindric-ellipsoid. Seeds not seen.