Hypericum pumilio (Nomenclature)
Shrublet, 0.02–0.1 m long, glabrous, with stems ascending, rooting, much branched. Stems filiform, fragile, not or little branched above; internodes 2–5 mm, shorter than leaves. Leaves very shortly (c. 0.25 mm) petiolate, glaucous beneath, 3–9 × 3–7 mm, ovate to obovate, apex obtuse, margin plane to recurved, not indurated, base rounded, with 2 pairs of ascending lateral veins; laminar glands pale, dense; intramarginal glands pale, dense and (1–)2–5 black, apical, small. Inflorescence 1–6-flowered, from one node, corymbiform; bracts and bracteoles minute, oblong, black-glandular-ciliate. Flowers c. 8 mm in diam., petals erect after flowering; buds globose, rounded. Sepals equal?, 1.6–3 × 1–1.7 mm, oblong or elliptic-oblong to spathulate; margin black-glandular-denticulate; laminar glands pale, linear. Petals 4–7 × 2.5 mm, 2.5 × sepals; marginal glands 1–5, black, apical, on cilia; laminar glands pale, striiform. Stamens ?, longest c. 5 mm, 0.8 × petals; filaments yellow. Ovary not seen. Capsule 2.5–3.5 mm long. Seeds ‘pale, very elongated, almost smooth’ (fide Stef., 1931).
Central Turkey (Sivas)
Hypericum pumilio, which has been collected only once, appears to be related to 22. monadenum though smaller in all parts. The apex of the leaf has 2–5 small black glands instead of one large one.