''Verticordia'' sect. ''Corynatoca''

Verticordia sect. Corynatoca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Myrtales
Family:Myrtaceae
Genus:Verticordia
Subgenus:Verticordia subg. Eperephes
Section:Verticordia sect. Corynatoca
A.S.George[1]
Type species
Verticordia ovalifolia

Verticordia sect. Corynatoca is one of six sections in the subgenus Eperephes. It includes the single species Verticordia ovalifolia. Plants in this section are sometimes bushy shrubs, sometimes tall and open. The flower cup has very short appendages and the staminodes have raised glands on their surface.[2]

When Alex George reviewed the genus in 1991 he described the section and gave it the name Corynatoca.[1][3] The name "Corynatoca" is derived from the Ancient Greek words koryne meaning "a club"[4]:213 and atokos meaning "sterile"[4]:752 referring to the unusual staminodes.[2]

The type and only species in this section is Verticordia ovalifolia.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 "Verticordia sect. Corynatoca A.S.George". APNI. Retrieved 24 September 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 (Berndt) George, Elizabeth A.; Pieroni, Margaret (2002). Verticordia : the turner of hearts. Crawley, Western Australia ;Canberra: University Of Western Australia Press. p. 113. ISBN 1876268468.
  3. ↑ George, Alex (1991). "New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae : Chamelaucieae)". Nuytsia. 7 (3): 273.
  4. 1 2 Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.
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