Hypericum kingdonii N. Robson

Perennial herb 0.015-0.048 m tall, suberect to decumbent from short rooting base, with stems usually branched from upper to nearly all nodes.  Stems terete, eglandular; internodes 10-25 mm, longer than leaves.  Leaves sessile, lower soon deciduous; lamina 6-14 ´ 3-7 mm, broadly ovate-oblong or broadly elliptic to suborbicular, pale or glaucous beneath, recurved, subchartaceous, apex rounded, margin entire, base shallowly cordate to rounded; venation: 3-4 pairs of main laterals from lower 2/5 of midrib, tertiary reticulation lax or apparently absent; laminar glands pale, punctiform, small, dense; intramarginal glands black, dense. Inflorescence 5-25-flowered from 1-2 nodes, usually with flowering branches from up to 6 nodes below and often also towards base of stem, the whole narrowly pyramidal to subcylindric; pedicels 1-2 mm; bracts and bracteoles narrowly elliptic or linear-lanceolate, black-glandular-denticulate to -fimbriate or subentire, with intercalary sessile black glands and ± well developed black-gland-fringed auricles, persistent.  Flowers c. 8-14 mm in diam., stellate; buds ellipsoid, obtuse.  Sepals 5, 4.5-6 ´ (1-)1.5-2 mm, equal, erect in bud and fruit, lanceolate to oblong-linear, acute to subacuminate, irregularly glandular-denticulate to -fimbriate or subentire; veins 3-5, branching; laminar glands pale, linear to punctiform and often a few black, punctiform; marginal or intramarginal glands black, irregular, often between glandular cilia or fimbriae.  Petals 5, golden? yellow, not tinged red in bud, 6-8 ´ ? mm, c. 1.3-1.5 ´ sepals, narrowly ovate, acute, margin entire; laminar glands black, striiform to punctiform, sparse to rather dense; marginal glands distal and in apiculus, black.  Stamens c. 20-25, '3'-fascicled, longest 5-6 mm, c. 0.7-0.85 ´ petals; anther gland black.  Ovary 3-locular, c. 2 ´ 1 mm, ellipsoid; styles 3, c. 3 mm, 1.5 ´ ovary, ± divergent; stigmas narrow.  Capsule 5-7 ´ 3.5-4.5 mm, narrowly ovoid to ellipsoid, c. 1.1 ´ sepals; valves with numerous lingitudinal vittae.  Seeds yellow-brown, c. 0.5 mm, not carinate; testa finely scalariform.