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Hypericum monanthemum Credit: Harvard University Herbaria

Herbs, perennial, glabrous, with dark (black or reddish) glands present on leaves, sepals, petals, and anthers. Stems terete or, when thin, 2-4-lined, eglandular or rarely with reddish glands on lines. Leaves free, often gland-fringed, sometimes glandular-auriculate. Bracts and bracteoles entire or gland-fringed, often auriculate. Sepals and petals 4 or 5, persistent after anthesis, sepals free, entire to gland fringed, petals entire or with apical glandular cilium. Stamens apparently 3-fascicled. Styles (2 or)3(or 4), free. Capsule valves longitudinally vittate. Seeds not carinate, testa scalariform-reticulate to foveolate.

Seven species: from SW China to S India and Pakistan; seven species (two endemic) in China.

Lower Taxa

• Hypericum daliense N. Robson
• Hypericum himalaicum N. Robson
• Hypericum ludlowii N. Robson
• Hypericum monanthemum J. D. Hooker & Thomson ex Dyer
• Hypericum subcordatum (R. Keller) N. Robson
• Hypericum trigonum Handel-Mazzetti
• Hypericum wightianum Wallich ex Wight & Arnott