Verticordia sect. Chrysorhoe
| Verticordia sect. Chrysorhoe | |
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| Plate 1 from John Lindley's A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony: "Chrysorhoe nitens" | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Verticordia |
| Subgenus: | Verticordia subg. Chrysoma |
| Section: | Verticordia sect. Chrysorhoe (Lindley) A.S.George |
| Type species | |
| Verticordia nitens | |
| Species | |
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3 species: see text. | |
Verticordia sect. Chrysorhoe is a section of Verticordia that describes a group of four shrub species. The section is contained by a subgenus, Verticordia subg. Chrysoma, in Alex George's 1991 revision of the genus. The sections name, which may refer to the flowers, is derived from Greek, chryso- and rhoe, translating as a golden stream. It conserves the name given by John Lindley to the type species for this section, Verticordia nitens, which he named as Chrysorhoe nitens in 1837. The species was transferred to Verticordia by Stephan Endlicher the following year.
The species included within this section are:
The characteristics of this section's florescence are a corymbous, sometimes dense, arrangement of glistening flowers, yellow, orange or golden, with toothed margins on the petals. The leaves are needle-like. They are inflexible and upright shrubs no taller than 2 metres.
References
- "Verticordia sect. Chrysoma(Schauer) A.S.George". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
- George, A.S. (1991) New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae). Nuytsia 7(3): 271
- Elizabeth A. (Berndt) George; Margaret Pieroni (illustrator) (2002). Verticordia: The turner of hearts. Crawley: University of Western Australia Press. p. 103. ISBN 1-876268-46-8.