Verticordia sect. Cooloomia

Verticordia sect. Cooloomia is a section that describes a single species in the flowering plant genus Verticordia. The section is one of seven in the subgenus, Verticordia subg. Chrysoma. The characteristics of this section includes leaves that differ in shape, depending on their position on the plant and very small sepals. In most other respects, the one plant in this section is similar to those in section Verticordia sect. Chrysoma.[1]

Verticordia sect. Cooloomia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Verticordia
Subgenus: Verticordia subg. Chrysoma
Section: Verticordia sect. Cooloomia
A.S.George
Type species
Verticordia cooloomia

When Alex George reviewed the genus in 1991, he described the section and gave it the name Cooloomia[2][3] after Verticordia cooloomia, the only species it contains.[1]

References edit

  1. ^ a b (Berndt) George, Elizabeth A.; Pieroni, Margaret (2002). Verticordia: the turner of hearts. Crawley, Western Australia; Canberra: University Of Western Australia Press. p. 104. ISBN 1876268468.
  2. ^ "Verticordia sect. Cooloomia A.S.George". APNI. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  3. ^ George, Alex (1991). "New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae : Chamelaucieae)". Nuytsia. 7 (3): 272.