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Nomenclature
Hypericum linarioides Bosse
Nomenclature
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Genus: HypericumSection: sect. Taeniocarpium
Media
DIAGNOSTIC DESCRIPTION
Perennial herb, 0.05–0.33 m tall, glabrous, erect or ascending from creeping, rooting and branching base, sometimes mat-forming, usually with short axillary shoots from all nodes below inflorescence. Stem 2-lined, green or red, eglandular; internodes 5–35 mm, equalling or usually exceeding leaves. Leaves up to 0.5 mm petiolate, paler beneath, not or scarcely glaucous, 5–18 ×1–8 mm, oblong-elliptic to narrowly oblong or linear or very narrowly oblanceolate, apex subapiculate to rounded, margin plane to revolute, base rounded to narrowly cuneate or attenuate, with 2–4 pairs of ascending lateral veins; laminar glands pale, punctiform, uniformly dense or sparser towards base, medium-sized; intramarginal glands pale, small, spaced; leaves on axillary shoots smaller. Inflorescence 5-c. 40-flowered, from 2–5 nodes, narrowly cylindric to spiciform, dense or interrupted, 15–110 mm long, with lateral cymules 1–5-flowered, without or with 1–2 pairs of flowering branches below, then making the whole very narrowly pyramidal; bracts and bracteoles narrowly oblong to linear, entire. Flowers 10–20 mm in diam., petals erect after flowering; buds cylindric to subglobose, rounded. Sepals subequal to equal, basally united, not or slightly imbricate, 2–5 × 1.2–2 mm, oblong, obtuse or apiculate to rounded; veins 5, not branching, not prominent; margin entire or with obconic sessile black glands towards apex only; laminar glands pale, linear to striiform. Petals pale yellow, tinged red, 5–12 × 3–6 mm, c. 2.5 × sepals, narrowly oblanceolate; marginal glands black, distal (apical and outer margin), rather large, sessile and on cilia; laminar glands pale, linear to striiform. Stamens 35–40, longest 8– 10 mm; filaments yellow. Ovary 2–3 × 1–1.5 mm, narrowly ellipsoid to narrowly ovoid; styles 4–6 mm, c. 2 × ovary. Capsule 5–6 × 2.5–3.5 mm, narrowly ovoid. Seeds not seen; testa densely papillose.