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Verticordia sect. Verticordia

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Family
  
Myrtaceae

Order
  
Myrtales

Genus
  
Verticordia

Subgenus
  
Verticordia subg. Verticordia

Section
  
Verticordia DC. sect. Verticordia

Verticordia sect. Verticordia is one of eleven sections in the subgenus Verticordia. It includes eight species of plants in the genus Verticordia. Plants in this section are open to bushy shrubs up to 1 m (3 ft) tall with needle-like leaves, feather-like sepals and anthers opening by slanting pores. When Johannes Conrad Schauer described other subgenera in Verticordia, subgenus Verticordia became an autonym after Augustin de Candolle who described the genus in 1828. When Alex George reviewed the genus in 1991, he took the name of this section from that of the subgenus.

The type species for this section is Verticordia plumosa and the other seven species are V. crebra, V. helichrysantha, V. stenopetala, V. sieberi, V. harveyi, V. pityrhops and V. fimbrilepis.

References

Verticordia sect. Verticordia Wikipedia