Verticordia habrantha

Verticordia habrantha
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Verticordia
Species: V. habrantha
Binomial name
Verticordia habrantha
Schauer
Synonyms

Verticordia umbellata Turcz.[1]

Verticordia habrantha is a species of slender and spreading shrub found in Southwest Australia. It is commonly referred to by the name Hidden Featherflower.

Ranging in height from 0.15 to 0.7 metres high, the habit of the plant is spindly. The plant presents white and pink flowers sometime between August to December. Verticordia habrantha is found on sandy soils, or those containing clay. The habitat of the species is sandplains and stony hillsides that are seasonally wet. The distribution is southern districts of Southwest Australia.

Verticordia habrantha, with other species, in a painting by Ellis Rowan

The first description of this species was published by Johannes Conrad Schauer in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae (1844), from a specimen collected by Ludwig Preiss.[2] In the 1991 revision of the genus Verticordia, Alex George nominated a lectotype from the Preiss collection; this was obtained near the Gordon River. George also names Verticordia umbellata, given by Turczaninow, to be a synonym.[1]

Verticordia habrantha has been assessed as unthreatened by extinction.

Notes

  1. 1 2 George, A.S. (1991) New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae). Nuytsia 7(3): 327
  2. ↑ Lehmann, J.G.C. (1844), Plantae Preissianae 1(1): 100 Type: "In solo subarenoso inter frutices planitiei secundae cis fluvium Gordon (Hay). Fl. Novembri. Herb. Preiss. No. 169"

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