Hypericum uralum Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don

Only two records from the Flora area; dry open situations, 1500-1650 m.

Hypericum uralum is sometimes very similar to H. henryi subsp. uraloides but can usually be distinguished by the frondose stems and broader leaves and sepals.

Shrub 0.3-1.8(3)m tall, bushy. Stems arching, frondose; branches 4-lined or 4-angled at first, eventually terete. Leaves subsessile or with petiole up to 0.5 mm long; lamina 14-40 mm long, 4-24 mm broad, lanceolate to ovate, apex acute to rounded-apiculate, base narrowly or rarely broadly cuneate, venation laxly reticulate obtuse. Inflorescence of 1-3(-10)-flowered corym¬bose cymes, often also lateral, racemiform; flowers 1.5-3 cm in diameter. Sepals 3.5-9 mm long, oblong or elliptic to obovate-spathulate, rounded, entire, appressed in bud, ascending in fruit. Petals broadly obovate to obovate-circular, 9-18 mm long, 2-4 x longer than the stamens. Stamens 40-60 in each fascicle. Ovary 3-5 mm long; styles (0.6)0.7-0.9 x as long as the ovary, free, curving throughout or only near apex. Capsule 7-11 mm long, broadly ovoid to globose, without vittae or vesicles. Seeds 0.5-0.6(0.8) mm long, slightly carinate; testa shallowly linear-reticulate.

Shrubs, 0.3-2 m tall; branches arching, often frondose. Stems 4-lined or 4-angled and strongly ancipitous when young, eventually 2-lined or terete; internodes 0.5-2 cm, shorter than leaves. Leaves with flat petiole 0.5-1 mm; blade lanceolate or when older sometimes ovate, 1-4 × 0.4-2.4 cm, thickly papery, abaxially ± densely glaucous; laminar glands streaks (toward midvein) and dots; abaxial glands usually ± dense; main lateral veins 3-paired, tertiary reticulation scarcely visible; base narrowly or rarely broadly cuneate, apex acute to rounded-apiculate. Inflorescence 1-3(-10)-flowered, from 1 or 2 nodes, nearly flat-topped, with short terminal internode, often with 1-3-flowered branches from middle of stem; bracts deciduous, narrowly oblong. Pedicels 3-7 mm. Flowers 1.5-3 cm in diam., ± deeply cupped; buds broadly ovoid to globose, apex obtuse to rounded. Sepals erect, subequal to unequal, oblong or elliptic to oblong-spatulate, 3.5-6(-9) × (1-)2-5(-6.5) mm; laminar glands lines, margin entire with narrowly hyaline margin, apex rounded or very rarely obtuse. Petals golden to deep yellow, not tinged red, broadly obovate to subcircular, 0.9-1.8 cm × 5-12 mm, 2.5-3 × as long as sepals; margin entire, eglandular; apiculus rounded or obsolete. Stamen fascicles each with 40-60 stamens, longest 4-6(-8) mm, 0.25-0.5 × as long as petals. Ovary broadly ovoid to globose, 3-5 × 2.5-3 mm; styles 2.5-4.5 mm, 0.6-0.9(-1) × as long as ovary, free, erect and divergent toward apex or wholly outcurving. Capsule subglobose or more rarely broadly ovoid, 7-11(-13) × 7-11 mm. Seeds dark brown, 0.4-0.6 mm, scarcely carinate; testa linear-foveolate. Fl. Jul-Sep, fr. Aug-Oct. 2n = 20.

Himalaya (Kashmir to Bhutan), Burma, Thailand, S. China, Sumatra.

Distribution: Kashmir to S.W. China, Burma, Thailand and Sumatra.

Xizang (Moindawang, Zayü), NW Yunnan [Bhutan, NE India, N Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan].

1200-3600 m

Fl. Per.: April-September.

Dry open habitats, sometimes in thickets and by streams; 1500-3600 m.

Hypericum patulum Thunberg var. attenuatum Choisy; H. patulum var. uralum (Buchanan-Hamilton ex D. Don) Koehne; Norysca urala (Buchanan-Hamilton ex D. Don) K. Koch.

Hypericum uralum is a species of flowering plant in the St. John's wort family Hypericaceae. Its native range includes China, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Myanmar.