Botanical name: Hypericum choisyanum    Family: Hypericaceae (Hypericum family)

Short-Stamen Hypericum is a long-flowering, 0.3-2 m tall, evergreen, shrub. Flowers are borne in 1(2-7)-flowered corymb-like cymes. Flowers are 4-7 cm in diameter. Petals are obovate, 1.6-3 cm long, 2.5-3 x longer than the stamens. Stamens are 60-80 in each fascicle. Sepals are 7-18 mm long or sometimes longer and foliaceous, narrowly elliptic or lanceolate to broadly ovate or very broadly elliptic, acute to apiculate or more rarely obtuse, entire, spreading or ascending in bud and fruit. Stems spreading; branches 4-lined and flattened at first, eventually terete. Leaves on 2-4 mm long stalks, are 2.5-8.8 cm long, 1-4.2 cm broad, ovate to lanceshaped or oblong-lanceshaped, apex acute or apiculate to rounded, base broadly cuneate to rounded, venation rather densely to scarcely reticulate. Short-Stamen Hypericum is found in the Himalayas at altitudes of 1800-3600 m.

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