Verticordia
Verticordia nitens, illustration.
The Verticordia, often called Spring Flowering Shrubs, are a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family ( Myrtaceae ).
Description
Verticordia species are evergreen shrubs or rarely trees, the plant height from 1 to 7 m rarely achieve. The whole plants contain essential oils. The opposite constantly and rarely whorled at branch arranged leaves are simple, can be tiny to medium in size and have a smooth margin. Stipules are not available.
The flowers are borne singly or in few differently constructed inflorescences. The hermaphrodite flowers are five-fold radial symmetry and to strongly zygomorphic. There are 20 stamens present, most of which only ten, rarely five, are fertile. Two carpels are a inferior ovary fused with a stylus and a scar. Pollination is by insects ( entomophily ) or birds ( Ornithophilie ). They are usually contain only one, rarely two seeds dry unilocular fruit.
Dissemination
Verticordia species are in the northern, eastern and south-western Australia is home (Western Australia and Northern Territory ). They thrive in a Mediterranean climate.
System
The botanical genus name is derived from the Latin Verticordia: epithet of Venus, the charioteer of the heart; it was a temple built as three Vestals were both like, give them the hearts of women would turn away from unchastity. To consecrate this temple and set up the image of the goddess, the recognized most chaste women were ten chosen by lot out of a hundred, then from among A -proclaimed, namely Sulpicia, wife of Fulvius Flaccus ..
After the revision of the genus Verticordia 1991 by AS George it is divided into the three subgenera with 24 sections and contains about 101 species:
- Verticordia subgenus Chrysoma shower: With seven sections: Verticordia section Chrysoma: Verticordia acerosa
- Verticordia citrella
- Verticordia subulata
- Verticordia endlicheriana
- Verticordia chrysanthella
- Verticordia chrysantha
- Verticordia galatea
- Verticordia brevifolia
- Verticordia coronata
- Verticordia amphigia
- Verticordia laciniata
- Verticordia nobilis
- Verticordia grandiflora
- Verticordia rutilastra
- Verticordia serrata
- Verticordia integra
- Verticordia patens
- Verticordia nitens
- Verticordia aurea
- Verticordia Cooloomia
- Verticordia staminosa
- Verticordia section Verticordia: Verticordia crebra
- Verticordia helichrysantha
- Verticordia plumosa
- Verticordia stenopetala
- Verticordia sieberi
- Verticordia harveyi
- Verticordia pityrhops
- Verticordia fimbrilepis
- Verticordia polytricha
- Verticordia densiflora
- Verticordia brownii
- Verticordia eriocephala
- Verticordia capillaris
- Verticordia minutiflora
- Verticordia fastigiata
- Verticordia oxylepis
- Verticordia longistylis
- Verticordia verticordina
- Verticordia dasystylis
- Verticordia penicillaris
- Verticordia huegelii
- Verticordia brachypoda
- Verticordia multiflora
- Verticordia roei
- Verticordia inclusa
- Verticordia apecta
- Verticordia insignis
- Verticordia habrantha
- Verticordia lehmannii
- Verticordia pritzelii
- Verticordia gracilis
- Verticordia humilis
- Verticordia monadelpha
- Verticordia mitchelliana
- Verticordia pulchella
- Verticordia section Integripetala: Verticordia helmsii
- Verticordia rennieana
- Verticordia interioris
- Verticordia mirabilis
- Verticordia PICTIS
- Verticordia cunninghamii
- Verticillata Verticordia
- Verticordia decussata
- Verticordia jamiesoniana
- Verticordia pennigera
- Verticordia halophila
- Verticordia blepharophylla
- Verticordia lindleyi
- Verticordia carinata
- Verticordia attenuata
- Verticordia drummondii
- Verticordia wonganensis
- Verticordia paludosa
- Verticordia luteola
- Verticordia bifimbriata
- Verticordia tumida
- Verticordia mitodes
- Verticordia Centipeda
- Verticordia auriculata
- Verticordia pholidophylla
- Verticordia spicata
- Verticordia hughanii
- Verticordia ovalifolia
- Verticordia aereiflora
- Verticordia albida
- Verticordia argentea
- Verticordia chrysostachys
- Verticordia comosa
- Verticordia dichromatic
- Verticordia etheliana
- Verticordia × eurardyensis
- Verticordia forrestii
- Verticordia fragrans
- Verticordia grandis
- Verticordia lepidophylla
- Verticordia muelleriana
- Verticordia oculata
- Verticordia serotina
- Verticordia venusta