Hypericum pamphylicum N. Robson & P.H.Davis

Shrub c. 0.14-0.25 m tall, with branches decumbent. Stems slightly 2-lined and green when young, soon terete; cortex becoming reddish brown, then bark grey in second year. Leaves in almost completely perfoliate pairs; lamina 18-35 x 14-35 mm, broadly ovate or broadly oblong-ovate, paler beneath, midrib slightly prominent beneath, glaucous, subcoriaceous, deciduous during second year; apex acute to apiculate-obtuse or rounded, base united; venation: 3- 4 pairs of laterals, scarcely distinct from tertiary reticulation. Inflorescence 5-20-flowered from (1)3-4 nodes, hemispheric to subcorymbiform; pedicels 3-4 mm; bracteoles lanceolate-subulate, margin red-glandular-denticulate. Flowers c. 20 mm in diam.; buds elliptic, obtuse to subacute. Sepals 3-3.5 x 0.7-1 mm, unequal, almost free to 0.35 united, lanceolate to narrowly oblong, obtuse to rounded, margin red-glandular-denticulate, veins 5, not or scarcely prominent. Petals bright yellow, not red-tinged, 11-12(-14) x 3 mm, c. 4 x sepals, lanceolate to narrowly oblong, rounded; laminar glands striiform. Stamens 21-26, longest 10-14 mm long, about equalling petals. Ovary 3 x 1.5 mm, narrowly ovoid; styles c. 1 mm long, c. 3.5 x ovary, narrowly curved-ascending; stigmas narrowly capitate. Capsule and seeds unknown.