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Nomenclature
Hypericum sorgerae N. Robson
Nomenclature
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Section: sect. HirtellaSubsection: Stenadenum
- holotype: BM - Sorger - 69-37-26
- isotype: WU - Sorger - 69-37-26
DIAGNOSTIC DESCRIPTION
Perennial herb, (0.11–)0.17–0.22 mm tall, glabrous, erect or ascending, not rooting, unbranched below inflorescence, with sterile shoots ascending. Stems not glaucous, with scattered pale or amber gland dots especially towards base, slightly prominent; internodes 0.8–2.2 mm, exceeding to shorter than leaves. Leaves sessile to subsessile, subglaucous; lamina (main stem) 5–11 × 1.3–2 mm, narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate to linear, apex rounded, margin or whole leaf revolute, base cuneate, 1-veined?, with laminar glands pale, small, scattered, marginal glands pale; lamina (axillary and sterile shoots) smaller, narrower, otherwise similar. Inflorescence (8–)15–21-flowered, from 3–7 nodes, narrowly cylindric, rather dense, (3–)5–10 mm long, with lateral cymules 1(2)-flowered, without flowering branches; bracts and bracteoles oblong to lanceolate, entire or with a few marginal black glands. Flowers c. 15 mm in diam., with petals erect after flowering?; buds subglobose. Sepals unequal to subequal, 1/3–1/2 united, imbricate or not, 2.5–3 × 1–2.4 mm, oblong to oblong-lanceolate, rounded to acute; veins (4)5, prominent; some (in one flower) with margin wholly entire or all with distal, sessile to subsessile, globose to cylindrical-ellipsoid, black marginal glands; laminar glands pale, linear to distally punctiform. Petals rather pale yellow, not red-tinged, 9–12 × 5–7 mm, 3–4 × sepals, obovate-oblanceolate, unguiculate?, rounded, distally shortly black-glandular-ciliate; laminar glands pale, rather few, punctiform to shortly striiform. Stamens c. 30–50, longest c. 8 mm; filaments not red-tinged. Ovary 3 × 2.5 mm, broadly ovoid; styles c. 4 mm, 1.5 × ovary. Capsule 5–7 × 4.5–5.5 mm, subglobose to globose, not or scarcely rostrate. Seeds mid brown, 1.5 mm long.