Verticordia Spicata

	Verticordia Spicata ''Verticordia spicata'', commonly known as spiked featherflower, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is usually a dense, bushy shrub with small leaves pressed against the stem and spikes of pink flowers from late spring to early summer. Description ''Verticordia spicata'' is an upright to spreading shrub , sometimes tall with one main stem at its base. The leaves are densely arranged along the branches, mostly closely clasping the stem. The leaves are broadly egg-shaped, with prominent oil glands and have narrow, translucent and slightly hairy margins. The flowers are scented and arranged in spike-like groups on the upper part of the branching stems, each flower on a stalk less than long. The floral cup is top-shaped, long, glabrous with two green appendages, long. The sepals are pale pink to mauve, spreading, long, with 6 or 7 feathery lobes and two ear-like appendages on the sides. The peta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Flowering Plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants that produce their seeds enclosed within a fruit. They are by far the most diverse group of land plants with 64 orders, 416 families, approximately 13,000 known genera and 300,000 known species. Angiosperms were formerly called Magnoliophyta (). Like gymnosperms, angiosperms are seed-producing plants. They are distinguished from gymnosperms by characteristics including flowers, endosperm within their seeds, and the production of fruits that contain the seeds. The ancestors of flowering plants diverged from the common ancestor of all living gymnosperms before the end of the Carboniferous, over 300 million years ago. The closest fossil relatives of flowering plants are uncertain and contentious. The earliest angiosperm fossils ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Verticordia Paludosa ''Verticordia paludosa'' is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an openly branched shrub with small leaves and pink to magenta flowers with spreading, feathery sepals and erect, fringed petals in summer and autumn. Description ''Verticordia paludosa'' is a shrub with a single main stem and a few side branches, which grows to a height of and wide. Its leaves are elliptic to egg-shaped, long, dished on the upper surface and covered with short hairs. The flowers are scented and are arranged in spike-like groups, each flower on a spreading stalk long. Before the flower opens the bud is enclosed by two fringed bracteoles. The floral cup is top-shaped, about long, 5-ribbed and glabrous with rounded appendages which merge with the hypanthium. The sepals are long, pink to magenta-coloured and have between 6 and 7 feathery lobes. The petals are a similar colour to the sepals, long, erect, egg-shaped and with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Verticordia Wonganensis ''Verticordia wonganensis'' is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub which grows near Wongan Hills and has a single main stem, small leaves and spike-like groups of large, pink, feathery flowers. Description ''Verticordia wonganensis'' is a shrub with a single main branch and which usually grows to a height of and up to wide. The leaves are arranged in decussate pairs, elliptic in shape, long and more or less pressed against the stem. The flowers are scented and arranged in spike-like groups near the ends of the branches, each flower on a spreading stalk about long. The floral cup is top-shaped, about long, has 5 ribs and green appendages and is glabrous and slightly rough. The sepals are long, pink and spreading with 7 to 8 hairy lobes. The petals are bright pink, long and erect with a fringe a further long. The style is long, hairy and curved near the tip. Flowering time is from November t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Verticordia Drummondii ''Verticordia drummondii'', commonly known as Drummond's featherflower, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, openly to densely branched shrub with small, narrow leaves and pink to purple flowers in small heads near the ends of the branches. Description ''Verticordia drummondii'' is a shrub which grows to a height of and a spread of , although sometimes as high as and which has a single, sometimes highly branched stem at its base. Its leaves are narrow egg-shaped, long with a rounded end but with a very short point. The flowers are scented and arranged in spike-like groups, each flower on a stalk long. The floral cup is top-shaped, about long, glabrous with 5 ribs and small green appendages. The sepals are pale to bright pink, long, with 5 to 7 hairy lobes. The petals are erect, pink or white, long, roughly circular in shape with a fringe about long. The style is curved, long and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Verticordia Attenuata ''Verticordia attenuata'' is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a shrub with a single main stem, small leaves and pink to purple flowers which fade to white as they age. It usually grows in sand in areas that are wet in winter, often amongst grasses and is found in coastal areas near Bunbury. Description ''Verticordia attenuata'' is an erect, open shrub with a single stem at its base and which grows to a height of and wide. Its leaves are elliptic to narrow egg-shaped, long and have a few short hairs along their edges. The flowers are arranged in spike-like groups each with a stalk about long. The floral cup is top-shaped, warty, about long and has 5 rounded ribs. The sepals are long, with 7 or 8 lobes with hairy fringes. The petals are pink, long, narrower at the tip with a fringe only at the tip. The style is about long and hairy. Flowering time is usually from December to April. Taxonomy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Verticordia Carinata ''Verticordia carinata'', commonly known as pea-shaped featherflower or Stirling Range featherflower, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is an erect, spindly shrub with small, well-spaced leaves and pink and red flowers. It is a rarely seen plant, not known between its description in 1849 and its rediscovery in 1990. Description ''Verticordia carinata'' is a slender, spindly shrub which grows to a height of and has a single, branching stem at its base. The leaves are well spaced along the branches, elliptic to oblong in shape, dished, long and have fine, short hairs on their edges. The flowers are scented, arranged in a double-sided spike with one flower per leaf axil, held horizontally on a stalk long. The flowers open gradually from the bottom of the spike and superficially resemble pea flowers. The floral cup is top-shaped, long and glabrous. The sepals are magenta to pink, fading as they age, long, with 5 or 6 fea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Verticordia Lindleyi ''Verticordia lindleyi'' is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is sometimes an openly branched shrub, other times more or less dense, with small leaves and spreading, spike-like groups of pink or purple flowers along the stems in summer, sometimes also in autumn. Description ''Verticordia lindleyi'' is a shrub which grows to a height of usually with one main stem, either openly or densely branched. Its leaves are egg-shaped to elliptic, slightly dished, long and covered with short hairs. The flowers are lightly scented and are arranged along the stems in spike-like groups, each flower on a spreading stalk long. The floral cup is a top-shaped, about long, 5-ribbed and glabrous with rounded green appendages about long. The sepals are pink or purple, occasionally white, long, with 5 to 7 hairy lobes. The petals are a similar colour to the sepals, egg-shaped, long and sometimes have a few small teeth on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Verticordia Blepharophylla ''Verticordia blepharophylla'' is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, open shrub with a single main stem, leaves with hairy margins and pale to deep mauve-pink flowers and which occurs in an area between Perth and Geraldton. Description ''Verticordia blepharophylla'' is an open branched shrub with a single stem at its base and which grows to a height of and a width of . The leaves are elliptic to almost circular in shape, long and are fringed with hairs up to about long. The flowers are scented and arranged in spikes near the ends of the branches, each flower on a stalk long. The floral cup is top-shaped, long, has 5 rounded ribs and a slightly warty surface. The sepals are pale to deep mauve-pink, long, with 6 or 7 lobes with thread-like fringes. The petals are the same colour as the sepals, , broadly egg-shaped with a fringe long. The style is S-shaped, about long, and has a dense b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Verticordia Halophila ''Verticordia halophila'', commonly known as salt-loving featherflower, or salt-loving verticordia, is a flowering plant in the myrtle Family (biology), family, Myrtaceae and is Endemism, endemic to the Southwest Australia, south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, bushy shrub with small, crowded, thick leaves and spikes of red and pink flowers in spring. Description ''Verticordia halophila'' is a shrub which grows to high and wide and which has a few main stems with many short, leafy side-branches. The leaves on the side branches are crowded, oblong to egg-shaped, thick with a rounded end but with a short point and covered with soft hairs less than long. The leaves on the flowering stems are broadly egg-shaped to almost round. The flowers are scented and arranged in spike-like groups near the ends of the long flowering stems, each flower on a stalk, long. The Hypanthium, floral cup is top-shaped, long, smooth and wikt:glabrous, glabrous with 5 ribs and small bent gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Verticordia Sect :For the clam genus, see ''Verticordia'' (bivalve). ''Verticordia'' is a genus of more than 100 species of plants commonly known as featherflowers, in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. They range in form from very small shrubs such as '' V. verticordina'' to trees like '' V. cunninghamii'', some spindly, others dense and bushy, but the majority are woody shrubs up to tall. The flowers are variously described as "feathery", "woolly" or "hairy" and are found in most colours except blue. They often appear to be in rounded groups or spikes but in fact are always single, each flower borne on a separate stalk in a leaf axil. Each flower has five sepals and five petals all of a similar size with the sepals often having feathery or hairy lobes. There are usually ten stamens alternating with variously shaped staminodes. The style is simple, usually not extending beyond the petals and often has hairs near the tip. All but two species are found in Southwest Australia, the other two occurring i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Verticordia Subg :For the clam genus, see ''Verticordia'' (bivalve). ''Verticordia'' is a genus of more than 100 species of plants commonly known as featherflowers, in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. They range in form from very small shrubs such as '' V. verticordina'' to trees like '' V. cunninghamii'', some spindly, others dense and bushy, but the majority are woody shrubs up to tall. The flowers are variously described as "feathery", "woolly" or "hairy" and are found in most colours except blue. They often appear to be in rounded groups or spikes but in fact are always single, each flower borne on a separate stalk in a leaf axil. Each flower has five sepals and five petals all of a similar size with the sepals often having feathery or hairy lobes. There are usually ten stamens alternating with variously shaped staminodes. The style is simple, usually not extending beyond the petals and often has hairs near the tip. All but two species are found in Southwest Australia, the other two occurring i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]