Hypericum ternatum Poulter

Shrublet 0.08-0.15(-0.27) m tall, much branched, strongly lignified, round-topped to irregularly hemispherical, with branches erect to divergent-ascending or prostrate (typical dwarf espalier shrub - Hagemann, 1989: 288); wholly glabrous, red or black glands sometimes present in flowers. Stems 3-angled (6-lined) at first, eventually terete; cortex green; bark smooth, cinnamon-brown. Leaves all 3-whorled or uppermost paired, free, petiolate, with petiole 0.4-1 mm long; lamina (2-) 3-8(-10) x 1.2-2.4 mm, oblanceolate to elliptic, concolorous, glaucous, subcoriaceous: apex rounded, margin recurved-subindurate, base narrowly cuneate; venation: 1 pair of laterals sometimes discernible; laminar glands dense to sparse, scarcely prominent; intramarginal glands dense. Inflorescence 1(- 3)-flowered, terminal and in uppermost leaf axils; bracteoles 1-2.5 mm long, linear, submembranous; pedicels 3-11 mm long, slender. Flowers c. 15 mm in diam.; buds ovoid-pyramidal, subacute. Sepals green or pink-tinged, (2-)3-4(-5) x 0.75-2 mm, free, not imbricate, equal, lanceolate to linear, acute chartaceous, margin entire to subentire or minutely denticulate; veins 3(5), not prominent or branched; laminar glands pale, punctiform, sparse; marginal or intramarginal glands 1-c. 16, black or reddish, or none. Petals yellow, sometimes veined red, 7-10(-12?) x 2-3 mm, c. 3 x sepals, elliptic to oblong, rounded, eglandular or with indistinct pale dots toward apex. Stamens c. 10, longest 6-8 mm, c. 0.8 x petals; anther gland (always?) black. Ovary 2-2.5 x 1-1.5 mm, narrowly ovoid- ellipsoid, acute; styles c. 3 mm long, 1.5 x ovary, curved-ascending. Capsule 5-6 x 3-3.5 mm, ovoid-conic, narrowly acute, subcoriaceous, with valves longitudinally vittate, exceeding sepals. Seeds blackish, c. 1.7 mm long, narrowly carinate; testa linear- foveolate.