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Verticordia sect. Platandra

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Group of flowering plants

Verticordia sect. Platandra
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Verticordia
Subgenus: Verticordia subg. Verticordia
Section: Verticordia sect. Platandra
A.S.George
Species

2 species: see text.

Verticordia sect. Platandra is one of eleven sections in the subgenus Verticordia. It includes two species of plants in the genus Verticordia. Plants in this section resemble V. pritzelii in section Catocalypta but differ in they do not have tufts of hair on their sepals. The anthers are flattened and the hairs on the style are forked. When Alex George reviewed the genus in 1991 he formally described this section, publishing the description in the journal Nuytsia.

When George published his review of the genus in 1991, there was only one species in the section, V. gracilis but in 2010 he described V. setacea and included that species in section Platandra.

The name Platandra is derived from the Ancient Greek platy- meaning "flattened" and -andros meaning "male" referring to the flattened anthers.

The type species for this section is Verticordia gracilis and the other species is V. setacea.

References

  1. ^ (Berndt) George, Elizabeth A.; Pieroni, Margaret (2002). Verticordia : the turner of hearts. Crawley, Western Australia ;Canberra: University Of Western Australia Press. p. 109. ISBN 1876268468.
  2. "Verticordia sect. Platandra". APNI. Retrieved 23 September 2016.
  3. George, Alex (1991). "New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae)". Nuytsia. 7 (3): 277.
  4. "Verticordia setacea". APNI. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  5. ^ George, Alex S.; Barrett, Matthew D. (2010). "Two new taxa of Verticordia (Myrtaceae: Chamelaucieae) from south-western Australia". Nuytsia. 20: 313–317.
Taxon identifiers
Verticordia sect. Platandra


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