Verticordia sect. Chrysorhoe is a section

Section (botany)

In botany, a section is a taxonomic rank below the genus, but above the species. The subgenus, if present, is higher than the section, and the rank of series, if present, is below the section. Sections are typically used to help organise very large genera, which may have hundreds of species...

 of 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,...

 that describes a group of four shrub species. The section is contained by a subgenus

Subgenus

In biology, a subgenus is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.In zoology, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between the generic name and the specific epithet: e.g. the Tiger Cowry of the Indo-Pacific, Cypraea tigris Linnaeus, which...

, Verticordia subg. Chrysoma

Verticordia subg. Verticordia

Verticordia subg. Verticordia is a botanical name for a grouping of similar plant species in the genus Verticordia. This subgenus contains eleven sections, classifying thirty six species, of Alex George's infrageneric arrangement. A number of anatomical features differentiate the contained species...

, in Alex George

Alex George

Alexander Segger George is a Western Australian botanist. He is the authority on the plant genera Banksia and Dryandra...

's 1991 revision of the genus. The sections name, which may refer to the flowers, is derived from Greek, chryso- and rhoe, translating as a golden stream. It conserves the name given by John Lindley

John Lindley

John Lindley FRS was an English botanist, gardener and orchidologist.-Early years:Born in Catton, near Norwich, England, John Lindley was one of four children of George and Mary Lindley. George Lindley was a nurseryman and pomologist and ran a commercial nursery garden...

 to the type species

Type species

In biological nomenclature, a type species is both a concept and a practical system which is used in the classification and nomenclature of animals and plants. The value of a "type species" lies in the fact that it makes clear what is meant by a particular genus name. A type species is the species...

 for this section, Verticordia nitens

Verticordia nitens

Verticordia nitens is an upright shrub, 0.45 to 1.8 metres tall, with glistening and perfumed flower heads that appear between October and February in Southwest Australia...

, which he named as Chrysorhoe nitens in 1837. The species was transferred to Verticordia by Stephan Endlicher the following year.

The species included within this section are:

Section Verticordia sect. Chrysorhoe

V. patens

Verticordia patens

Verticordia patens is a slender woody shrub found in Western Australia. It is between 200 - 1300 mm tall and has yellow and green flowers, held out in rounded bunches. It was first described in The Western Australian Naturalist by Alexander George, from a collection he made at Moore River,...

 - V. nitens

Verticordia nitens

Verticordia nitens is an upright shrub, 0.45 to 1.8 metres tall, with glistening and perfumed flower heads that appear between October and February in Southwest Australia...

 - V. aurea

Verticordia aurea

Verticordia aurea is a woody shrub found in Western Australia, referred to by the common name Buttercups. The profusion of flowers are a rich yellow or orange, presented on the corymbosely formed upper branches of the shrub, at a height between 0.6 and 1.5 metres...

The characteristics of this section's florescence are a corymbous, sometimes dense, arrangement of glistening flowers, yellow, orange or golden, with toothed margins on the petals. The leaves are needle-like. They are inflexible and upright shrubs no taller than 2 metres.