Hypericum splendens Small
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Authority
New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium of Dr. Per Axel Rydberg. Purchased, 1899. Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden.
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Family
Clusiaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Species Description - An erect much branched shrub 0.5-1.5 meters tall, with 2-edged glaucous twigs. Leaves firm, numerous; blades oblong, 1.5-2.5 cm. long, obtuse or rounded at the apex, slightly revolute, glaucous, especially beneath, narrowed at the sessile base: buds conic: flowers very showy, several or many in terminal or axillary cymes: sepals unequal, oblong, firm, apiculate, the outer about 8 mm. long, the inner 5 mm. long: corollas 3.5-4 cm. broad: petals golden, cuneate, oblique, 1.5-2 cm. long: stamens very numerous, orange-colored: styles 3, slender: capsules often crowded, conic, 1.5 cm. high, acuminate at the apex, partially 3-celled, about thrice as long as the sepals with 3 narrow wings and 6 obtuse angles: seeds cylindric, 1.3 mm. long, longitudinally ribbed and transversely wrinkled, resembling ears of corn.
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Discussion
This is perhaps the most showy North American Hypericum and is related to H. aureum from which it differs in the smaller firmer leaves, the more distinctly pedicelled flowers and the conic buds.
The original specimens were collected by the writer on Stone Mountain, Georgia, in July and August, 1893, and August 6, 1895. Type in the herbarium of Columbia University.
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Distribution
On granite slopes. Stone Mountain, Georgia. Summer.
Georgia United States of America North America|