Hypericum microsepalum (Torrey & Gray) A. Gray ex S. Watson

Shrub 0. 1 5-0.7 m tall (or long), erect or more usually decumbent or ascending, with branches numerous, straggling or ascending. Stems reddish brown, 4-lined and ancipitous when young, eventually 2- lined; cortex exfoliating in strips; bark red-brown. Leaves sessile, 5-10(-15) x 1-3 mm, narrowly oblong or oblanceolate to linear, with margin recurved to subrevolute, paler beneath, thinly coriaceous, deciduous above base, apex rounded to obtuse, base rounded to (usually) cuneate; venation obscure: 1-3 pairs of lateral veins; laminar glands dense to sparse. Inflorescence 1-3-flowered, without accessory flowers, sometimes with single flowers or triads or flow- ering branches from up to 4 nodes below, the whole rounded-pyramidal; pedicels 5-9 mm long; bracts reduced foliar. Flowers 15-25 mm in diam., buds ovoid, acute. Sepals (3)4(5), 3-5 x 1-1.4 mm, persistent, subequal or (when 5) equal, oblong or elliptic to linear, obtuse to acute, margin plane, basal veins 3, unbranched. Petals (3)4(5), bright yellow, 10-12 x 6-9 mm, 2-2.5 x sepals, unequal or (when 5) subequal, when 4 the larger pair obovate and smaller pair obovate-oblong, with apiculus lateral, obtuse, short. Stamens 60-70, longest c. 6 mm, c. 0.5 x petals. Ovary 3-merous, 3-3.5 x 1.2 mm, narrowly ellipsoid, scarcely lobed, placentation parietal; styles 3.3 mm long, 0.85-1 x ovary, sometimes separating in fruit. Capsule 6-8 x c. 2.5 mm, cylindric-ellipsoid to cylindric or narrowly ovoid-conic, acute to obtuse. Seeds dark brown, c. 0.9-1 mm long; testa linear-foveolate.