Verticordia sect. Unguiculata
Verticordia" sect. "Unguiculata is one of seven sections in the subgenus "Chrysoma". It includes three species of plants in the genus "Verticordia". Plants in this section are rigid shrubs with a single main stem and are less than tall. They have yellow flowers arranged in corymb-like groups and the flowers turn red as they age. They have sepals with fringed lobes, petals which have lobes arranged like the fingers of a hand and anthers which have an appendage which looks like a pair of claws. When Alex George reviewed the genus in 1991, he described the  section and gave it the name "Unguiculata". The name "Unguiculata" is the diminutive form of the Latin word "unguis" meaning "little claw" or "little talon" referring to the anther appendage in these species. The type species for this section is "Verticordia grandiflora" and the other two species are "V. nobilis" and "V. rutilastra".