Hypericum punctatum Lam.

Herbs erect to ascending, with rarely rooting, branching base, 1.3–10.5 dm. Stems <clustered>, internodes not lined, with black glands scattered all over. Leaves spreading or ascending, usually sessile, rarely petiolate (to 1 mm); blade elliptic or oblong to lanceolate or triangular-lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 14–40(–58) × 3–17(–22.5) mm, base cordate to narrowly cuneate, margins plane, apex usually rounded to retuse, rarely acute to obtuse, midrib with 3–5 pairs of branches, <tertiary veins densely reticulate toward margins>, black glands intramarginal (dense) and laminar (scattered). Inflorescences subcorymbiform to cylindric, 10–206(–600)-flowered, <subsidiary branches narrowly ascending to curved-ascending>. Flowers 8–15 mm diam.; sepals not imbricate, erect in fruit, lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate to elliptic or ovate-elliptic, subequal, (1.5–)2–4 × 0.8–1.6 mm, apex acute to rounded; petals pale yellow, oblanceolate to elliptic, 3–6(–9) mm; stamens (20–)30–60; anther gland black; styles 1–4 mm. Capsules ovoid to subglobose, 2.5–6 × 2–3.5(–4) mm, with longitudinal vittae or elongate to ovoid vesicles. Seeds not carinate, 0.5–0.7 mm; testa linear-reticulate. 2n = 14, 16.