Verticordia sect. Jamiesoniana

Verticordia sect. Jamiesoniana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Verticordia
Subgenus: Verticordia subg. Eperephes
Section: Verticordia sect. Jamiesoniana
A.S.George[1]
Type species
Verticordia jamiesonii

Verticordia sect. Jamiesoniana is one of six sections in the subgenus Eperephes. It includes the single species Verticordia jamiesonii. Plants in this section have tiny, yellowish leaves and white flowers that turn pink as they age and have stamens and staminodes with slightly thickened hairs.[2]

When Alex George reviewed the genus in 1991, he described the section and gave it the name Jamiesoniana after the type species V. jamiesonii named by Ferdinand von Mueller in 1883.[1][3]

The type and only species in this section is Verticordia jamiesonii.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Verticordia sect. Jamiesoniana A.S.George". APNI. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  2. ^ a b (Berndt) George, Elizabeth A.; Pieroni, Margaret (2002). Verticordia : the turner of hearts. Crawley, Western Australia ;Canberra: University Of Western Australia Press. p. 112. ISBN 1876268468.
  3. ^ George, Alex (1991). "New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae : Chamelaucieae)". Nuytsia. 7 (3): 280.