Hypericum pamphylicum (Nomenclature)
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.
Limestone rocks; 100 m.
Turkey (Antalya).
H. pamphylicum has been collected only once. It is clearly closely related to H. rupestre, in relation to which all its characters are apomorphic with the possible exception of the red (as opposed to black) glands.