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Nomenclature
Hypericum beccarii N. Robson
Nomenclature
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Genus: HypericumSection: sect. Humifusoideum
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Synonyms: 1
- isotype: MEL - Beccari - 337
- holotype: BM - Beccari - 337
- isotype: K - Beccari - 337
- isotype: L - Beccari - 337
DIAGNOSTIC DESCRIPTION
Perennial (or sometimes annual?) herb c. 0.02-0.45 m long, branching irregularly, wiry, with branches from near base, weak, decumbent or ascending (erect fide Bakh. f.), creeping and rooting. Stems 4-6- lined when young, often becoming 2-lined, eglandular. Leaves with petiole 0.2-1.5 mm long; lamina 2.5-10.5 x 0.5-6 mm, broadly oblong or elliptic-oblong to oblanceolate or linear, glaucous beneath, plane (sometimes except margin), spreading; apex subacute or apiculate to rounded, margin not or slightly recurved, base rounded to cuneate; venation: 3(4) pairs of main lateral veins, parallel-incurved, branched to form tertiary reticulation dense and conspicuous near apex and margin; laminar glands pale, irregularly punctiform; intramarginal to marginal glands irregular, pale and/or black. Inflorescence 1-flowered, with flowering branches in one or both uppermost axils; pedicels (2-)5-17 mm in fruit. Flowers c. 1-10 mm in diam., stellate; buds narrowly ovoid, obtuse. Sepals 2.5-5 x 0.6-1.4 mm, imbricate or not, unequal to equal, elliptic-oblong to linear, rounded to apiculate or subacute, entire to irregularly glandular-ciliate; veins 5, branching and reticulating; laminar glands pale, shortly striiform to punctiform; inframarginal to marginal glands black, spaced. Petals yellow, not tinged red, 3-7 x 2-2.5 mm, 1.2- 1.4 x sepals, oblong-oblanceolate, rounded, with apiculus glandular or glandular-ciliate; laminar glands pale or black, few, near apex, punctiform, or absent; marginal glands black, 1-2, subsessile or on cilia, sometimes continuing as a row of inframarginal to submarginal glands. Stamens clearly (?) 3-fascicled, c. 15-22, longest 2.5-5.5 mm, c. 0.75-0.85 x petals; anther gland black. Ovary 1.5 x c. 1 mm, narrowly ovoid, acute; styles 3, c. 1 .5 mm long, placentae 3, axile. Capsule 3-5.5 x 2-3.5 mm, narrowly ovoid, 1.2-1.3 x sepals, with valves longitudinally vittate or almost smooth. Seeds reddish brown, 0.7-0.9 mm, not carinate; testa densely and shallowly linear-reticulate.