Hypericum macgregorii
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Description
Erect shrub, 0.15-1 m, branches strict, creeping and rooting at the base;
branchlets 2-lined when young, eventually terete.
Leaves sessile, 4-9 by 1-3 mm, ovate-lanceolate to elliptic or narrowly elliptic-oblong, apex subacute to rounded, base cuneate, concolorous, plane or ± carinate, ± imbricate-appressed;
c. 6 main lateral veins, ± parallel, not visibly branching, uniting near margin and apex, without visible reticulate venation;
laminar glands pale, linear, becoming ± interrupted or punctate towards margin;
intramarginal glands pale or black.
Inflorescence 1-flowered, without shoots in uppermost axils, branching farther down stem;
pedicels usually shorter than uppermost leaves, 2-6(-10) mm in fruit.
Flowers 2-2½ cm ø, ± plane;
buds narrowly ovoid, subacute.
Sepals 3-6½ by ¾-2½ mm, free, not imbricate, elliptic to linear-lanceolate, subacute to obtuse or rarely rounded, entire;
laminar glands pale, linear to punctate;
submarginal glands pale or black.
Petals dark yellow to pale yellow, sometimes red-tinged below, 7-15 by 3-6 mm, oblanceolate, entire, persistent;
apiculus absent or almost so;
submarginal glands absent.
laminar glands pale, linear, sometimes interrupted distally;
Stamens obscurely 3-fascicled, c. 17-24, longest 5-8 mm, c.¾ as long as petals, persistent;
anthers bright yellow, gland amber.
Ovary 2 mm, ovoid;
styles 3(-4), 2 mm, equalling ovary, divergent;
stigmas not capitate;
placentas 3 (4) axile.
Capsule 6-8 by 3-4 mm, ovoid, longitudinally vittate.
Seeds yellow-brown, c. 1 mm, cylindric to cylindric-ellipsoid, slightly carinate, densely linear-foveolate.