Hypericum pseudolaeve (Nomenclature)
Perennial herb, 0.15–0.6 m, erect, branching at base and from all stem nodes; sterile shoots not distinct. Stems with ± numerous small amber or reddish gland dots, not prominent; internodes 15–40 mm, exceeding leaves. Leaves sessile, spreading to ascending, glabrous and scarcely glaucous or undulate-papillose above; lamina 8– 22 × 1–3 mm, linear, apex rounded, margin often revolute, base cuneate; 1-veined or with 1–3 pairs of lateral veins from lower 1/2 to 2/3 of midrib; laminar glands pale, numerous, punctiform, marginal glands spaced. Inflorescence ∞-flowered, broadly to narrowly pyramidal or cylindric, 50–200 mm long, with lateral cymules 3–13-flowered, sometimes with up to 7 pairs of lower branches; bracts and bracteoles linear to narrowly oblong, the upper sometimes with black marginal glands. Flowers 10-16 mm in diam., with petals eventually deflexed; buds broadly ellipsoid to globose, rounded. Sepals equal or subequal, 1/4–1/2 united, 1.5–3 × 0.7– 1.2 mm, oblong to ovate-oblong, rounded to obtuse or rarely acute; veins (1)3(5?), becoming slightly prominent; margin regularly glandular-denticulate, glands black, globose; laminar glands pale, usually in 2 continuous or interrupted lines. Petals chrome? yellow, not red-tinged, 6–8 × 3–4.5(–6) mm, oblanceolate, long-unguiculate, rounded, margin black-glandular-ciliate or with sessile black glands, denser towards apex; laminar glands pale, punctiform. Stamens 35–45, longest c. 8 mm, equalling petals; filaments yellow. Ovary 1.7–2.5 × 1.5–2 mm, broadly ovoid to subglobose, shortly rostrate; styles 3–4 mm, 1.6 × ovary. Capsule 4–6 × 3–4.5 mm, broadly ovoid to subglobose, shortly rostrate; vittae narrow. Seeds dark brown, c. 1.5 mm long.
Dry igneous or metamorphic slopes or steppe; 500–2000 m.
Turkey (Anatolia, except west), Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan (Nakhchivan) (Transcaucasian records fide Sennikov, 1993, not in map).
Hypericum pseudolaeve is intermediate between 25. H. lysimachioides and 30. H. helianthemoides, differing from the former by, for example, its shorter thinner leaves, smaller flowers with usually obtuse to rounded sepals, and smaller, broadly ovoid to subglobose capsules, and from the latter by the shortly rostrate capsule and usually the undulate-papillose leaves.