''Verticordia'' sect. ''Jamiesoniana'' is one of six

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s in the

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''Eperephes''. It includes the single species ''

Verticordia jamiesonii ''Verticordia jamiesonii'' is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is small shrub with short leaves crowded on young branchlets and white to pale pink flowers in small groups ...

''. Plants in this section have tiny, yellowish leaves and white flowers that turn pink as they age and have

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s and

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s with slightly thickened hairs. When Alex George reviewed the genus in 1991, he described the section and gave it the name ''Jamiesoniana'' after the type species '' V. jamiesonii'' named by

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in 1883. The type and only species in this section is ''

''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q28184721 Jamiesoniana Rosids of Western Australia Plant sections Monotypic plant taxa