Hypericum pulogense
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Description
Suffrutescent herb, 20-40 cm, branches strict, erect or ascending to decumbent from slender branching rhizome, 2(-4-6)-lined or narrowly 2-winged when young, sometimes eventually terete.
Leaves sessile or very shortly petiolate, 0.8-1.2(-2) by 0.3-0.7 cm, elliptic to oblong or ovate, apex obtuse to rounded, base broadly cuneate to rounded, glaucous beneath, margin recurved (at least when dried), spreading or ascending;
c. 4 main lateral veins, ± parallel, slightly branched, uniting near margin and apex, with scarcely visible reticulate venation;
laminar glands pale, ± prominent, punctate and shortly striate;
intramarginal glands pale or apparently absent.
Inflorescence 1-flowered, with or without flowering shoots in uppermost axils, or regularly dichasial with 3-c. 10 flowers;
pedicels shorter than uppermost leaves, 4-6 mm in fruit.
Flowers 2-2½(-3) cm ø, plane;
buds narrowly ovoid, subacute to obtuse.
Sepals 4-6 by 1.8-2.4 mm, free, imbricate, lanceolate to oblong or elliptic-oblong, rounded or subapiculate, entire;
laminar glands pale, linear and punctate;
submarginal glands pale.
Petals bright yellow, 10-12(-14) by 4-6 mm, narrowly oblong-obovate, entire to subentire, persistent;
apiculus small, glandular;
laminar glands pale, linear, becoming striate and punctate distally;
marginal glands pale.
Stamens not obviously in fascicles (or in 5 fascicles, fide MERRILL), C. 30-60, longest c. 9 mm, c.¾ as long as the petals, persistent;
anthers bright yellow, gland amber.
Ovary 3-4 mm, broadly to narrowly ovoid;
styles 3, c. 5 mm, 1.4-2 times as long as ovary, divergent;
stigmas not capitate;
placentas 3, axile.
Capsule 5-8 by 4-5 mm, narrowly ovoid to ovoid, longitudinally and diagonally vittate.
Seeds yellow-brown to dark brown,½-1 mm, cylindric, not carinate, densely linear-scalariform.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Philippines (Philippines present), Luzon present
Malesia: Philippines (Luzon). .