Hypericum coadunatum Chr. Sm.

Subshrub or perennial herb with woody base, c. 0.75-2 m tall, erect to ascending from creeping and rooting base with woody taproot, the branches numerous, forming dense clumps, upper branches spreading-ascending, the whole plant except inflorescence sparsely to rather densely crisped-pubescent. Stems green to reddish, 2-lined and ancipitous in inflorescence, otherwise terete; internodes mostly shorter than leaves. Leaves sessile, lower pairs free, upper pairs connate; lamina 20-40(-48) x 15-30(-36) mm, broadly elliptic to ovate-suborbicular, concolorous (pale green), herbaceous, not glaucous, plane, spreading; apex rounded, margin plane, base cordate- to subcordate-amplexicaul (lower) or pairs united with rounded sinus between; venation: 3-4 pairs of laterals, curved-ascending from lower c. 0.2 of midrib; tertiary reticulation dense, with major areoles bullate above, impressed beneath; laminar glands pale, dense near margin but absent near centre, subequal, sometimes prominent; intramarginal glands black, locally dense but irregular to sparse or almost absent. Inflorescence c. 10-60-flowered from 1-2 nodes, densely curved-corymbiform, sometimes with flowering branches from up to 3(?4) nodes, the whole then laxly cylindric to obconic; pedicels 4-6 mm; bracts not auriculate; bracteoles linear-triangular, black-glandular-ciliate or with some marginal glands sessile. Flowers c. 15 mm in diam.; buds ellipsoid, obtuse. Sepals 3.5-5 x 1.1-1.8 mm, subequal, oblong to lanceolate or elliptic, acute, with margin gland-fringed; veins 5, branched and reticulating towards margin and distally; laminar glands pale, striiform to punctiform and sometimes a few black, subpunctiform; marginal glands black, prominent. Petals bright yellow, not tinged red, (6.5-)7-8.5 x c. 2-3.25 mm, c. 1.6-2 x sepals, narrowly elliptic to narrowly oblong, rounded, without apiculus; laminar glands pale, striiform to punctiform; marginal glands black, 1-c. 3, apical, or absent? Stamens c. 40, clearly 3-fascicled, longest c. 6-7 mm, 0.8- 0.85 x petals; anther gland amber. Ovary 2.3-2.7 x 1.5 mm, narrowly ovoid-ellipsoid; styles c. 4.5 mm, c. 1.6 x ovary, spreading-incurved. Capsule 4-6 x 3-4 mm, ovoid-subglobose, slightly exceeding sepals, enclosed by petals twisting together. Seeds yellow-brown, 0.6 mm long; testa finely scalariform.