Verticordia habrantha

Verticordia habrantha, commonly known as hidden featherflower, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.

Its hairy sepals are mostly hidden by the round, unfringed petals, and as a result, the plant looks like shrubs in the genus Chamelaucium, to which it is closely related.

The petals are the same colour as the sepals, egg-shaped to almost round, 2.5–5 mm (0.1–0.2 in), spreading with a smooth edge and are joined with the ring of stamens and staminodes, to form a short tube.

The first formal description of this species was published by Johannes Conrad Schauer in Lehmann's 1844 Plantae Preissianae, from a specimen collected by Ludwig Preiss near the Gordon River.

[3] When Alex George reviewed the genus in 1991, he placed this species in subgenus Verticordia, section Catocalypta along with V. roei, V. inclusa, V. apecta, V. insignis, V. lehmannii and V.

V. habrantha with other species, in a painting by Ellis Rowan