Verticordia habrantha
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Verticordia habrantha is a species of slender and spreading shrub found in Southwest Australia
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It is commonly referred to by the name Hidden Featherflower.
Ranging in height from 0.15 to 0.7 metres high, the habit of the plant is spindly. The plant presents white and pink flowers sometime between August to December.
Verticordia habrantha is found on sandy soils, or those containing clay.
The habitat of the species is sandplains and stony hillsides that are seasonally wet.
The distribution is southern districts of Southwest Australia
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The first description of this species was published by Johannes Conrad Schauer
in Lehmann's
Plantae Preissianae (1844), from a specimen collected by Ludwig Preiss
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In the 1991 revision of the genus Verticordia
, Alex George
nominated a lectotype
from the Preiss collection; this was obtained near the Gordon River. George also names Verticordia umbellata, given by Turczaninow, to be a synonym.
Verticordia habrantha has been assessed as unthreatened by extinction.
Southwest Australia
Southwest Australia is a biodiversity hotspot that includes the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregions of Western Australia. The region has a wet-winter, dry-summer Mediterranean climate, one of five such regions in the world...
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It is commonly referred to by the name Hidden Featherflower.
Ranging in height from 0.15 to 0.7 metres high, the habit of the plant is spindly. The plant presents white and pink flowers sometime between August to December.
Verticordia habrantha is found on sandy soils, or those containing clay.
The habitat of the species is sandplains and stony hillsides that are seasonally wet.
The distribution is southern districts of Southwest Australia
Southwest Australia
Southwest Australia is a biodiversity hotspot that includes the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub ecoregions of Western Australia. The region has a wet-winter, dry-summer Mediterranean climate, one of five such regions in the world...
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Johannes Conrad Schauer
Johannes Conrad Schauer was a botanist interested in Spermatophytes. He was a professor of botany at the University of Greifswald. Amongst his published works are descriptions of the myrtles of Western Australia.-References:...
in Lehmann's
Johann Georg Christian Lehmann
Johann Georg Christian Lehmann was a German botanist.Born at Haselau, near Uetersen, Holstein, Lehmann studied medicine in Copenhagen and Göttingen, obtained a doctorate in medicine in 1813 and a doctorate in philosophy from he University of Jena in 1814...
Plantae Preissianae (1844), from a specimen collected by Ludwig Preiss
Ludwig Preiss
Johann August Ludwig Preiss was a German-born British botanist and zoologist.Preiss was born in Herzberg am Harz, Germany. He obtained a doctorate, probably at Hamburg, then emigrated to Western Australia...
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In the 1991 revision of the genus Verticordia
Verticordia
Verticordia, a genus of the Myrtaceae family, are woody shrubs with small and exquisite flowers. They are mostly found in Southwest Australia, with several outlier species in northern regions. A revision of the genus in 1991 produced a classification within Verticordia of 3 subgenera, 24 sections,...
, Alex George
Alex George
Alexander Segger George is a Western Australian botanist. He is the authority on the plant genera Banksia and Dryandra...
nominated a lectotype
Lectotype
In botanical nomenclature and zoological nomenclature, a lectotype is a kind of name-bearing type. When a species was originally described on the basis of a name-bearing type consisting of multiple specimens, one of those may be designated as the lectotype...
from the Preiss collection; this was obtained near the Gordon River. George also names Verticordia umbellata, given by Turczaninow, to be a synonym.
Verticordia habrantha has been assessed as unthreatened by extinction.