Verticordia aereiflora
Verticordia aereiflora is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a thin but bushy shrub with small leaves and greenish-yellow flowers with red spots and red fringes on the sepals. Description Verticordia aereiflora is a shrub which grows to a height of and a width of and has a single, highly branched stem. The leaves are almost circular in shape, in diameter with a dark brown stalk less than long. The flowers are scented, arranged singly or in groups of up to 3 in leaf axils, often in several groups along the branches and have stems that are long. Each flower-cup is top-shaped, long, glabrous and has 5 ribs. The sepals are about long, greenish-yellow or yellow with a red fringe. The petals are egg-shaped and crown-like, about long and yellow with red spots. Flowering time is from November to January. Taxonomy and naming The species was first formally described by Elizabeth George and Alex George in 1994 and the description was published in Nuytsia from specimens collected near Yuna. The specific epithet (aereiflora) "is from the Latin aereus - bronze and flos - a flower, in reference