Hypericum aethiopicum subsp. aethiopicum (Nomenclature)
Diagnostic description:
Stems eglandular or very rarely with a few amber gland dots. Sepals with margin black-glandular-denticulate or -ciliate distally or wholly.
Distribution:
South-eastern Cape Province (Griqualand East to Riversdale).
Notes:
Coleman 846 (from Kokstad) is one of the specimens mentioned above as being morphologically intermediate between the two subspecies. It comes from the narrow zone of overlap between the respective areas of the subspecies, as does Jacottet & Jacottet 570 (Griqualand, Glen Hope (Z)). Bredell's (1939) record of subsp. aethiopicum from Herschel district, near the Lesotho border, may be an error or an intermediate form. I have not seen the specimen (Hepburn 380 (GRA)).