Hypericum kouytchense H.Lév.

Large-flowered st john's-wort (en), Millepertuis de Chine (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Malpighiales > Hypericaceae > Hypericum

Characteristics

Evergreen, often spreading, glabrous shrub, to c. 1 m high, lacking black glands; rhizomes 0. Shoots reddish when young, ± flattened below infl. and on young vegetative shoots. Petioles 1-2 mm long, winged. Lamina 2-6 × 0.7-2.3 cm, ovate to lanceolate-ovate or elliptic, glaucous and dotted with pellucid glands beneath; base broadly cuneate; apex acute to mucronate. Panicles terminal, 5-12-flowered; pedicels mostly 1-2 cm long. Sepals somewhat unequal, 8-13 mm long, elliptic or elliptic-ovate, accrescent, eglandular, entire; apex mucronate or sharply acute. Corolla 6-8 cm diam., yellow, ± patent and thus rather flat; petals ± broad-obovate, rather irregular, much > sepals. Stamens ?-3/4 length of petals, in 5 bundles. Ovary becoming red after anthesis; styles 5, from = to 1.25× ovary. Capsule 1.5-2 cm long excluding persistent styles, ovoid, dry. Seeds 1.8-2 mm long, narrowly cylindric, with a coarse, shallow reticulum and a wing down one side, mostly abortive.
Life form perennial
Growth form shrub
Growth support -
Foliage retention
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 1.0 - 1.5
Mature height (meter) 0.5 - 1.0
Root system rhizome
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months -
Fruit color
Fruiting months -
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Light 4-9
Soil humidity -
Soil texture -
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 8-10

Usage

Uses medicinal
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings.
Mode cuttings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 12
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Hypericum kouytchense unspecified picture

Distribution

Hypericum kouytchense world distribution map, present in Australia, China, and New Zealand

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:433539-1
WFO ID wfo-0000727820
COL ID 3NPR2
BDTFX ID 35229
INPN ID 103291
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Hypericum kouytchense Norysca kouytchensis Hypericum penduliflorum