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Habit Plants with ± few, slender, little-branched stems from base, 3–10 dm.
Leaf

blades 9–26 × 0.5–0.8 mm, chartaceous, margins tightly inrolled, apex acute to long-acuminate.

Inflorescences

with terminal dichasium 3–7-flowered.

Capsules

cylindric to narrowly conic.

Sepal

apices acute to long-acuminate.

2n

= 18.

Hypericum nitidum subsp. exile

Phenology Flowering spring (Apr–May).
Habitat Open pine woods in sand
Elevation 10 m (0 ft)
Distribution
from FNA
FL; Central America; West Indies (w Cuba)
Discussion

Of conservation concern.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)

Source FNA vol. 6, p. 80.
Parent taxa Hypericaceae > Hypericum > sect. Myriandra > Hypericum nitidum
Sibling taxa
H. nitidum subsp. nitidum
Synonyms H. exile, H. galioides var. cubense
Name authority (W. P. Adams) N. Robson: Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.), Bot. 23: 67. (1993)
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