Hypericum dolabriforme Vent.

Subshrubs, decumbent and woody (not rooting) at base, branching at base or throughout, 1.5–5 dm, <bark thin>. Stems: internodes 4-lined at first, then 2-lined to terete. Leaf blades linear-elliptic or linear-oblong to linear, 20–35 × 3–5 mm (main stem), base not articulated, narrowly cuneate to rounded, margins recurved to revolute, apex obtuse to acute, midrib unbranched. Inflorescences <obconic>, (1–)3–20-flowered, ± widely branched, sometimes with single flowers at immediately proximal nodes. Flowers 15–20 mm diam.; sepals persistent, not enclosing capsule, 5, ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, <± foliaceous>, unequal, 5–8(–15) × 2–3(–8)mm; petals 5, yellow, curved-dolabriform, 10–13 mm; stamens deciduous, 120–200; ovary 3-merous. Capsules ovoid-conic, rostrate, 4–9 × 3–4 mm. Seeds carinate, 1.5–1.8 mm; testa reticulate-scalariform. 2n = 18.