Hypericum harperi |
Hypericum cumulicola |
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highlands scrub hypericum, highlands scrub St. Johnswort |
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Habit | Herbs perennial, semiaquatic or aquatic, erect, branching with long-creeping rhizomes at aerenchymatous base and from mid and distal nodes, 3–10 dm. | Herbs perennial, erect, branching at or just below ground level and in inflorescence, 2–7.5 dm. |
Stems | internodes 4-lined. |
internodes 4-lined. |
Leaves | ascending to deflexed, sessile; blade narrowly oblong-elliptic (proximal) or lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 10–30 × 3–8 mm, mostly longer than internodes, not or scarcely smaller distally, leathery, margins plane, apex acute, basal or near-basal veins 1–3(–5), midrib with 0–2 pairs of branches. |
appressed, sessile; blade linear-subulate, (1–)2.5–4 × 0.2–0.3 mm, subcoriaceous, margins incurved, apex acute, basal vein 1, midrib unbranched. |
Inflorescences | broadly pyramidal to subcorymbiform, 1(–30)-flowered, branching mostly dichasial. |
subcorymbiform, to 13-flowered, branching mostly dichasial. |
Flowers | 4–10 mm diam.; sepals lanceolate, usually unequal, 3–5 × 0.8–1 mm, margins sometimes ciliate, not setulose-ciliate, apex acute to acuminate; petals orange-yellow, obovate, 6–10 mm; stamens 50–80, irregularly grouped; styles 2–4 mm; stigmas capitate. |
3–4 mm diam.; sepals ovate to elliptic or narrowly oblong, unequal, 1.5–2 × 0.6–1 mm, margins sometimes ciliate, not setulose-ciliate, apex acute to subacute; petals yellow, obovate-oblong, 3.5–5 mm; stamens 20–25, irregularly arranged; styles 1.5–2 mm; stigmas capitate. |
Capsules | ellipsoid to rostrate-subglobose, 3–4.5 × 2–2.5 mm. |
narrowly ovoid-conic, subrostrate, 3.5–6 × 1–1.5 mm. |
Seeds | 0.5–0.6(–0.7) mm; testa obscurely linear-reticulate to irregularly reticulate. |
0.5–0.6 mm; testa scalariform-reticulate. |
2n | = 24. |
= 12. |
Hypericum harperi |
Hypericum cumulicola |
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Phenology | Flowering mid–late summer (Jul–Sep). | Flowering spring–late fall (Mar–Nov). |
Habitat | Open Taxodium swamps, wet pine barrens | Scrub, on ancient white-sand dunes |
Elevation | 0–200 m (0–700 ft) | 50 m (200 ft) |
Distribution |
AL; FL; GA; SC |
FL
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Discussion | Of conservation concern. Hypericum cumulicola is confined to Highlands and Polk counties and its habitat is under threat from bulldozers and citrus groves (D. B. Ward 1980); its nearest relative, with the same chromosome number, appears to be H. setosum. Hypericum cumulicola is in the Center for Plant Conservation’s National Collection of Endangered Plants. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 6, p. 90. | FNA vol. 6, p. 91. |
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Synonyms | Sanidophyllum cumulicola | |
Name authority | R. Keller: Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 58: 198. (1923) | (Small) W. P. Adams: Rhodora 64: 234. (1962) |
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