8 species: see text.
Verticordia sect. Verticordia is a section of Verticordia that describes a group of eight shrub species. The section is contained by the subgenus Verticordia subg. Verticordia in Alex George's 1991 infrageneric arrangement. The type species for this section is Verticordia plumosa, the same as that of the genus.
The species described as within this section are:
- Section Verticordia
- V. crebra - V. helichrysantha - V. plumosa - V. stenopetala - V. sieberi - V. harveyi - V. pityrhops - V. fimbrilepis
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