Hypericum sechmenii (Nomenclature)
Perennial herb 0.03-0.06 m tall, glabrous, with stems numerous, erect, caespitose. Leaves sessile, densely imbricate, 3-5 mm long, ovate to elliptic, subcoriaceous; apex rounded [ch], base cuneate, margin plane?; venation: ; laminar glands pale, numerous; intramarginal glands black, few. Inflorescence 3-5-flowered, corymbiform; bracts long-glandular-ciliate. Sepals c. 2 mm long, oblong, acute to obtuse, margin regularly glandular-ciliate; veins ; laminar glands amber, linear and/or punctiform and few black; marginal glands black. Petals 4-7 mm long; laminar glands amber, linear or punctiform; marginal glands black, few. Capsule 3-4 mm long, ovoid; valves with few interrupted longitudinal vittae.
Limestone rocks; 1750-1820 m.
Turkey, NW.Anatolia.
H. sechmenii has a densely caespitose habit, as does H. minutum, but it differs from that species inter alia in its longer stems, imbricate leaves, more floriferous inflorescence and sometimes acute sepals with a regularly glandular ciliate margin and numerous laminar black glands.