Hypericum androsaemum
L. TutsanSpreading, soft-wooded shrub, to c. 80 cm high, usually curry-scented; stems indistinctly 2-ridged. Leaves broadly ovate, 4–15 cm long, 3–8 cm wide, bases usually cordate, lower surface greyish. Flowers in terminal cymes of c. 3–15; sepals unequal, ovate, 4–8 mm long, enlarging somewhat and becoming deflexed in fruit, not black-dotted; petals obovate, c. equal to largest sepal, yellow, not black-dotted; stamens numerous, united at base into 5 bundles, slightly exceeding petals; styles 3, shorter than ovary. Fruit slightly fleshy, tardily dehiscent, globular, c. 1 cm diam., purplish or black; seeds narrowly ovoid, c. 1 mm long, minutely ridged longitudinally, or reticulate. Flowers Oct.–Jan.
VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, WaP, CVU, DunT, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, VAlp. Also naturalised NSW, ACT, Tas. Native to western and southern Europe. A common weed of cool, moist forests, chiefly in disturbed sites, along roadsides and beside watercourses, but also readily extending into intact native forest.
Walsh, N.G. (1996). Clusiaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 316–321. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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