Hypericum fragile Heldr. & Sart.

Perennial herb, 0.04–0.11(–0.16) m tall or long, glabrous, with stems suberect or straggling from woody branching base. Stems 2-lined, glaucous, fragile (articulated at nodes); internodes 2.5–9 mm, shorter than to exceeding leaves. Leaves 0.5–1 mm petiolate, base articulated, bifarious, rather fleshy, glaucous, 2–7 × 2–4 mm, subcircular to ovate-lanceolate or narrowly oblong-elliptic, apex rounded, margin plane, base truncate to cuneate, midrib sometimes branched; laminar glands pale, punctiform, dense, small and occasionally some larger, scattered or distal, sometimes appearing dark; marginal glands all pale or one or two dark, dense, without apical black gland. Inflorescence 1–8-flowered, from 1–3 nodes, subcorymbiform, crowded, branching monochasial; bracts and bracteoles elliptic-oblong, black-glandular-ciliate. Flowers c. 10–17 mm in diam., with petals erect after flowering; buds globose. Sepals equal, free, not imbricate, 3–4 × 0.5–1.5 mm, narrowly oblong to narrowly elliptic, acute; veins 3, unbranched; marginal glands black, on cilia, round whole margin; laminar glands pale, linear. Petals bright yellow, sometimes veined red, (6–)8–10 × 2–3 mm, c. 2.5 × sepals, narrowly oblanceolate; marginal glands round apex, black, small, on cilia; laminar glands pale, linear to striiform. Stamens c. 40, longest c. 6 mm, 0.6–0.8 × petals; filaments and anthers yellow. Ovary 1 × 1 mm, broadly ovoid; styles 4 mm, 4 × ovary. Capsule c. 5 × 4 mm, ovoid. Seeds not seen.