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Narrow-Leaved St Johns Wort   
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Narrow-Leaved St Johns Wort
P Native Shrub
Photo: Thingnam Girija
Common name: Narrow-Leaved St Johns Wort • Nepalese: चली म्हॆंदो Chali mhendo
Botanical name: Hypericum podocarpoides    Family: Clusiaceae (St John's Wort family)

Narrow-Leaved St Johns Wort is a small branched shrub, growing to 1.5 tall. It has branches covered with numerous linear-lancelike, or narrlow elliptic, pointed leaves. Leaves are stalkless and arranged such that one opposite pair is perpendicular to the next. Flowers are borne in few flower clusters are the end of branches. Narrow-Leaved St Johns Wort is found on open slopes and river banks in Uttarakhand at altitudes of 800-2100 m. Flowering: April-July.
Identification credit: Nongthombam Ulysses
Photographed in Mussoorie, Uttarakhand.