Hypericum spectabile Jaub. & Spach

Perennial herb, 0.35–0.6 m tall, glabrous, erect from taproot or with creeping and rooting base, branching at base and from upper stem nodes, sterile shoots sometimes present. Stems eglandular; internodes 15–40 mm, equalling or shorter than leaves. Leaves sessile, free or ± perfoliate, spreading, glaucous; lamina (main stem) 20–45 × 12–25(30) mm, triangular-ovate to semicircular, apex obtuse to rounded, margin plane, base cordate-amplexicaul, with 4–5 main laterals from base and/or lower half of midrib, with laminar glands pale, numerous, small, marginal glands absent; lamina (sterile and axillary shoots) linear, revolute, crowded, often mucronate. Inflorescence ∞-flowered, pyramidal, 100–150 mm long, with lateral cymules 2–8-flowered, mostly monochasial, without lower branches; bracts and bracteoles ovate-triangular to linear, entire, uppermost with margin eroded. Flowers 20–25 mm in diam., with petals becoming deflexed; buds globose. Sepals equal, ⅓ united, 3–5 × 1–2 mm, oblong, obtuse or rarely acute; veins 3, not prominent; margin ± regularly glandular-ciliate, glands black, obconic; laminar glands few, pale or absent. Petals “deep gold”, sometimes red-veined, 9–14 × 7–8 mm, 3–3.5 × sepals, obovate, long-unguiculate, rounded, with margin irregularly black-glandular-ciliate; laminar glands pale, mostly distal, punctiform. Stamens c. 60, longest 7–12 mm, filaments reddish. Ovary c. 4 × 2 mm, narrowly ovoid, acuminate; styles 6–7 mm, c. 1.5 × o v a r y . Capsule 7 –9 × 4–5 mm, ovoid-subglobose, rostrate; vittae narrow. Seeds reddish-brown, c. 2 mm long.