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Nomenclature
Hypericum bequaertii De Wild.
Nomenclature
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Genus: HypericumSection: sect. Campylosporus
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Synonyms: 2
- holotype: BR - Bequaert - 3151
- isotype: K - Bequaert - 3151
DIAGNOSTIC DESCRIPTION
Shrub or tree to 10(-12) m tall, often rather bushy, with branches ascending. Stems red when young, soon terete; internodes 2-6 mm long, much shorter than leaves;bark grey-brown. Leaves[1] sessile; lamina (10-)18-55(-60) x 4-15 mm, narrowly lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, acute, margin plane, base cuneate, reflexed-auriculate, concolorous, often glaucous, subcoriaceous, lower ones soon deciduous; venation: (3)5 basal or near-basal veins, unbranched, alternating with numerous parallel dichotomising (non-functional ?) secondary veins, without midrib branches or cross-veins; laminar glands in secondary venous system, uninterrupted, alternating with ± irregular series of small dots, and with a few scattered large resin glands; marginal glands pale, sparse. Inflorescence 1-flowered; pedicel c. 10 mm long; bracts foliar but smaller and broader. Flowers 40-75 mm in diam., cyathiform to campanulate; buds ovoid, acute. Sepals 14-20 x 8-12 mm, imbricate, ± unequal, soon recurved in bud, broadly to narrowly ovate, acute to subacute, margin entire to irregularly denticulate or ciliolate, midrib undifferentiated; laminar glands linear, numerous; submarginal glands absent or rarely few; marginal glands absent or dark. Petals orange (? to bright yellow), flushed red outside, persistent, erect, 27-35 x 16-25 mm, 1.7-2 x sepals, obovate, with apiculus small, rounded; margin entire, eglandular; laminar glands linear, interrupted distally. Stamen fascicles persistent, each with c. 30 stamens, longest 20-28 mm long, c. 0.7 x petals, with filaments united for 2-5 mm. Ovary c. 10 x 5 mm, ovoid-cylindric; styles c. 12 mm long, c. 1.2 x ovary, 0.75 coherent, suberect distally; stigmas subglobose, sometimes bilobed. Capsule 20-22 x 13-15 mm, ovoid-cylindric.Seeds dark reddish-brown, c. 1-5 mm long, cylindric, not carinate, linear-reticulate.
[1]The leaves and petals in the text figures are all three-quarters of natural size unless otherwise indicated.