''Hypericum cuisinii'' is a perennial herb in the genus '' Hypericum'', in the section '' Adenosepalum''. The herb has pale yellow flowers and occurs in Greece and Turkey.

Description

''Hypericum cuisinii'' is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant that grows tall, rarely growing as high as . The plant is cespitose and decumbent, with a woody taproot. The green and terete stems have a whitish pubescence below the inflorescences. The leaves are sessile or have short petioles measuring long. The ovate, oblong, or elliptic leaves are long and wide. The

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leaves have pale pubescent to pruinose undersides and are puberulous or glabrous above. The leaves are typically flat or have recurved margins. The leaf apices are rounded, the margins are entire, and the bases are rounded. The leaves have two lateral veins that curve upwards from the lower midrib, and dense tertiary

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that is rather obscure. The dense, cylindrical to subcorymbose inflorescences have one to seven flowers, rarely up to twenty-one. The pedicels are long. The linear- lanceolate to linear-elliptic

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s and bracteoles have black glandular

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, with the

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cilia more lengthy. The flowers are wide, and flower buds are ellipsoid. The two to twelve sepals are all of equal length, measuring long and wide. The three-veined sepals are or somewhat united, have glandular cilia, and are spotted with black dots. Flowers have up to nine pale yellow petals, measuring long and wide. The petals have pale laminar glands but lack marginal glands, and are spotted with black dots. Flowers have about 25

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s with black

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glands, the longest of which are long. The stamens are not grouped into stamen fascicles. The ellipsoid

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measures long and wide, and the spreading styles are long. The ellipsoid to subglobose capsules are long and wide. The petals twist together and enclose the capsules while they develop. The dark reddish-brown seeds are long.

Distribution and habitat

''Hypericum cuisinii'' occurs in Greece and Turkey. In Greece it grows in

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, Ikaria, Karpathos, and

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, and in Turkey it grows in Izmir. The herb prefers to grow near springs or in calcareous rock fissures, at altitudes from .

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q1640945 Plants described in 1886 cuisinii Flora of Greece Flora of Turkey