Verticordia sect. Chrysoma

Verticordia sect. Chrysoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Myrtaceae
Genus:	Verticordia
Subgenus:	Verticordia subg. Chrysoma
Section:	Verticordia sect. Chrysoma
Type species
	Verticordia acerosa;
Species
	4 species: see text.

Verticordia sect. Chrysoma is one of seven sections in the subgenus Chrysoma. It includes four species of plants in the genus Verticordia. Plants in this section are small shrubs with small, bright yellow flowers which usually turn red as they age. They have sepals with fringed lobes and petals which have lobes arranged like the fingers of a hand.^[1] The subgenus Chrysoma was originally described in 1843 by Johannes Conrad Schauer^[2] and the description was published in Monographia Myrtacearum Xerocarpicarum.^[3] When Alex George reviewed the genus in 1991, he took the name of this section from that of the subgenus.^[4]^[5]

The type species for this section is Verticordia acerosa and the other three species are V. citrella, V. subulata and V. endlicheriana.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b (Berndt) George, Elizabeth A.; Pieroni, Margaret (2002). Verticordia: the turner of hearts. Crawley, Western Australia; Canberra: University Of Western Australia Press. pp. 101–102. ISBN 1876268468.
^ "Verticordia subg. Chrysoma Schauer". APNI. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
^ Schauer, Johannes Conrad (1843). Monographia Myrtacearum Xerocarpicarum. p. 220. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
^ "Verticordia sect. Chrysoma (Schauer) A.S.George". APNI. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
^ George, Alex (1991). "New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae : Chamelaucieae)". Nuytsia. 7 (3): 270.