Hypericum caprifolium, Boiss.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 266

31. H. caprifolium Boiss. , Elenchus 26 (1838).

Stems 20-100 cm, erect or ascending from a creeping, rooting and branching base, crispate-pubescent. Leaves (15-)2O-5Omm, ovate to oblong, completely perfoliate, crispate-pubescent. Inflorescence corymbose to broadly pyramidal, usually dense, glabrous. Bracts sometimes auriculate. Sepals lanceolate, aristate, black-glandularciliate and with superficial black glands. Petals with marginal black glands. Damp, shady places. • S.E. Spain. Hs. Sect, elodes (Adanson) Koch. Perennial herbs, tomentose to crispate-pubescent, rarely glabrous. Red glands present on sepals and bracts. Flowers in pseudaxillary cymes. Petals and stamens persistent. Petals with 3-fid, ligulate, nectariferous appendage. Stamen-fascicles 3, with filaments united for more than I their length, alternating with 3 scale-like fasciclodes. Styles 3. Ovary with 3 parietal placentae. Capsule with longitudinal vittae. Seeds longitudinally ribbed, with transverse striation.