Hypericum peplidifolium A.Rich.

Glabrous perennial herb, sometimes with new plants arising from adventitious buds on the horizontal roots.. Stems tufted, prostrate, procumbent or ascending up to 6 dm. or occasionally 9 dm., but often considerably less, sometimes rooting at the lower nodes, rather slender, terete.. Leaves very shortly petiolate, blades elliptic or obovate, ranging from 3 x 2 mm. to 26 x 17 mm., rounded at the apex and base, furnished with conspicuous translucent glandular dots, and usually with black glands near the margin on the lower surface.. Flowers single, often appearing axillary; pedicels 5–40 mm. long.. Sepals very unequal, elliptic, obovate or oblong, the inner ones narrower, obtuse, furnished with a few translucent glandular dots and black submarginal dots.. Petals 7–8 (14) mm. long, yellow, with black marginal dots.. Stamens usually in 3 often rather indefinite groups of 7–10, but sometimes totalling as many as 60.. Styles normally 5.. Fruit fleshy, subglobose or broadly ovoid, indehiscent.. Leaves very shortly petiolate, blades elliptic or obovate, ranging from 3 × 2 mm. to 26 × 17 mm., rounded at the apex and base, furnished with conspicuous translucent glandular dots, and usually with black glands near the margin on the lower surface.

A tropical plant. It grows in mountain grassland. It is often in wet situations. It grows from 1,100 m to 3,600 m in East Africa. In Zimbabwe it grows between 1,100-2,000 m above sea level.