Verticordia sect. Unguiculata
| Verticordia sect. Unguiculata | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Verticordia |
| Subgenus: | Verticordia subg. Chrysoma |
| Section: | Verticordia sect. Unguiculata |
| Type species | |
| Verticordia grandiflora | |
| Species | |
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7 species: see text. | |
Verticordia sect. Unguiculata is one of seven sections in the subgenus Chrysoma. It includes three species of plants in the genus Verticordia. Plants in this section are rigid shrubs with a single main stem and are less than 1.0 m (3 ft) tall. They have yellow flowers arranged in corymb-like groups and the flowers turn red as they age. They have sepals with fringed lobes, petals which have lobes arranged like the fingers of a hand and anthers which have an appendage which looks like a pair of claws.[1] When Alex George reviewed the genus in 1991, he described the section and gave it the name Unguiculata.[2][3] The name Unguiculata is the diminutive form of the Latin word unguis meaning "little claw" or "little talon"[4] referring to the anther appendage in these species.
The type species for this section is Verticordia grandiflora and the other two species are V. nobilis and V. rutilastra.[1]
References
- 1 2 (Berndt) George, Elizabeth A.; Pieroni, Margaret (2002). Verticordia : the turner of hearts. Crawley, Western Australia ;Canberra: University Of Western Australia Press. pp. 102–103. ISBN 1876268468.
- ↑ "Verticordia sect. Unguiculata A.S.George". APNI. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
- ↑ George, Alex (1991). "New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae : Chamelaucieae)". Nuytsia. 7 (3): 270.
- ↑ Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 545.