Family | HYPERICACEAE |
Genus species | Hypericum selaginella N.Robson sect. Brathys |
Bibliography | Bull. Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.) Bot. 16: 102 (1987) |
Native Range | ec. & ne. Colombia |
Primary Biome | Montane Tropical |
Habitat | grassland |
Altitude | 3300-4300m |
Description | leaves sessile, imbricate, 4-rowed, linear, cucullate, coriaceous, acute, densely glandular-punctate, flowers solitary, ca. 8mm, petals abaxially reddish, oblong |
Size | 10-15cm |
Color | yellow |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-16°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 8 Southern America 83 Western South America (CLM Colombia) |