Hypericum hircinum
Hypericum hircinum
Ssp majus: Büyük tekeotu
Shrub, 20-70 cm. Leaves 2-6,7 cm, sessile or subsessile, narrowly lanceolate to broadly ovate, acute to rounded or apiculate, when crushed often smelling of goats. Sepals 3-7 mm, somewhat unequal, ovate-Ianceolate to lanceolate or narrowly oblong, deciduous after flowering. Petals 15-25 mm, narrowly oblanceolate to narrowly obovate. Stamens exceeding petals. Styles c. 3-5 x longer than the ovary. Fruit capsular, 8-13 mm, ellipsoid to subcylindric, subcoriaceous, persistent. FI. 6-8. Damp, shady places often beside streams, 100-600 m.
Scattered through S. Europe, Cyprus, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Arabia; Morocco? Medit. element.
