title: Hypericum lacei
text: # Hypericum lacei
  
  Hypericum lacei is a shrub in Hypericum sect. Ascyreia, in the St. John's Wort genus.
  
  ## Description
  
  The species has orange stems, uncommon in Hypericum species, that are 4-lined and become terete as the species matures. The leaves are petiolate and oblong and are a dark shade when dry. The inflorescence is 1-6 flowered from just one node and is deciduous. The flowers are 40–50 millimetres (1.6–2.0 in) in diameter and their petals are a golden shade of yellow.
  
  ## Distribution
  
  The species has only been recorded in Myanmar, in Southeast Asia.
  
  