Hypericum tetrapterum var. tetrapterum

Erect, rhizomatous herb or subshrub to c. 80 cm high; stems narrowly 4-winged. Leaves broadly ovate to obovate, 10–35 mm long, 5–20 mm wide, usually cordate at base, margins minutely black-dotted, 3–7-nerved from near base. Flowers in rather dense corymbose cymes; sepals lanceolate to triangular, acute to acuminate, 3–5 mm long, sparsely black-dotted toward the apex (occasionally some lacking black dots); petals up to twice as long as sepals, yellow, sparsely black-dotted toward the tip; stamens numerous, slightly shorter than petals, shortly fused into 3 bundles; styles 3. Capsule ovoid, c. twice as long as sepals; seeds cylindric, c. 0.8 mm long, finely reticulate. Flowers Jan.–Mar.