Verticordia sect. Jugata

Verticordia sect. Jugata is one of seven sections in the subgenus Chrysoma. It includes seven species of plants in the genus Verticordia. Plants in this section are mostly bushy shrubs to 1.0 m (3 ft) tall with bright yellow flowers which in some species turn red as they age. They have sepals with fringed lobes, petals which have lobes arranged like the fingers of a hand and bracteoles which are joined together and remain attached to the flower after it opens.[1] When Alex George reviewed the genus in 1991, he described the section and gave it the name Jugata.[2][3] The name Jugata is from the Latin word jugis meaning "yoked together"[4] referring to the arrangement of the bracteoles in these species.

Verticordia sect. Jugata
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. Jugata
Type species
Verticordia chrysantha
Species

7 species: see text.

The type species for this section is Verticordia chrysantha and the other six species are V. chrysanthella, V. galeata, V. brevifolia V. coronata, V. amphigia and V. laciniata.[1]

References
  1. (Berndt) George, Elizabeth A.; Pieroni, Margaret (2002). Verticordia : the turner of hearts. Crawley, Western Australia ;Canberra: University Of Western Australia Press. p. 102. ISBN 1876268468.
  2. "Verticordia sect. Jugata A.S.George". APNI. Retrieved 22 September 2016.
  3. George, Alex (1991). "New taxa, combinations and typifications in Verticordia (Myrtaceae : Chamelaucieae)". Nuytsia. 7 (3): 270.
  4. Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 143.


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