Hypericum saxifragum (Nomenclature)
Perennial herb, 0.03–0.06 m long, glabrous, with stems ascending or prostrate from woody branching base, without axillary shoots. Stems 2-lined to terete, glaucous, fragile; internodes 2–3 mm, shorter than leaves. Leaves 0.4–0.5 mm petiolate, base not? articulated, rather fleshy, glaucous, 2–5 × 1–1.5 mm, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong, apex rounded, margin indurated, base truncate to cuneate; midrib unbranched; laminar glands pale, punctiform, numerous; marginal glands pale, dense, without apical black gland. Inflorescence 1– 3-flowered, from one node; bracts elliptic with or without black subsessile marginal glands. Flowers 8–10 mm in diam., with petals erect? after flowering; buds cylindric-ellipsoid, rounded. Sepals equal, imbricate, 1.5–2 × 0.7-0.8 mm, elliptic to narrowly ovate, obtuse to acute; vein 1, unbranched; marginal glands black, sessile, round whole margin or absent (‘subsp.eglandulosum’); laminar glands pale, punctiform. Petals pale yellow, tinged red, 4–7 × 1.2–1.5 mm, c. 2.5 × sepals, narrowly oblong or narrowly oblong-spathulate; margin entire; laminar glands pale, linear. Stamens 25–30, longest 4 mm, about equalling petals; filaments yellow. Ovary 1.3–2 × c. 0.5–0.8 mm, narrowly ovoid; styles c. 1.5 mm, shortly exceeding ovary. Capsule and Seeds not seen.
2n = 18 (Reynaud, 1973).
Crevices of limestone rock; 1170–1500 m.
Turkey (Antalya).
Hypericum saxifragum is related to the Greek 26. fragile and to 27. taygeteum, differing from both these species in having conspicuous laminar leaf glands. The absence of sepal marginal glands in some specimens (populations?) seems scarcely worthy of nomenclatural recognition.