Hypericum richeri Vill.

Perennial herb 0.1–0.5 m, erect or decumbent from creeping and rooting base, with stems up to c. 6, unbranched below inflorescence. Stems shallowly 4–2-lined, eglandular; internodes 12–60 mm, shorter than to exceeding leaves. Leaves sessile, sometimes amplexicaul, erect to usually spreading; lamina 10–55 × 5–21 mm, lanceolate to elliptic or broadly ovate, paler beneath to wholly glaucous, chartaceous, sometimes rather thickly so; apex acute to rounded, margin entire, base rounded to shallowly cordate or cuneate; venation: 3–4 main laterals from lower 2/5 to half of midrib, branching, with dense tertiary reticulation; laminar glands absent; marginal glands black, irregular to rather dense. Inflorescence 1–18-flowered, from 2–3(–4) nodes, the upper node often short, very rarely with 1–2 pairs of flowering branches below, the whole obconic to corymbiform; pedicels 2.5–5 mm; bracts linear to subulate, black-glandular-ciliate to -fimbriate, base subauriculate-fimbriate. Flowers 20–35(–45) mm in diam., stellate; buds ellipsoid, obtuse to acute. Sepals 5, equal or rarely unequal, (4–)5–8 × 1.5–3 mm, narrowly to rather broadly elliptic, acuminate to rounded, glandular-ciliate to -fimbriate or occasionally subentire to entire, erect in fruit; veins (3–)5–7, branching and reticulating, becoming prominent in fruit; laminar glands all black, punctiform to shortly striiform; marginal glands black, subsessile or usually on denticles, cilia or fimbriae. Petals 5, bright or usually pale yellow, not tinged red, 10–25 × 5–8 mm, c. 2.5–3 × sepals, oblanceolate, rounded; laminar glands black, punctiform to striiform or shortly linear, dispersed; marginal glands black, distal, on cilia. Stamens c. 60–80, longest 6–11(– 13) mm, c. 0.5 × petals. Ovary (2.5–)3–5 × 2–3(–4) mm, ovoid-pyramidal to broadly ovoid; styles 4–6 mm, 1–1.5 × ovary. Capsule 6–9 × 4–7 mm, ovoid-pyramidal to broadly ovoid; valves with black and sometimes also pale glandular vesicles that, in subspp. grisebachii and richeri, are occasionally shortly elongate. Seeds stramineous, 1.2 mm; testa ribbed-foveolate.