Plants in this section are sometimes bushy shrubs, sometimes tall and open.

The flower cup has very short appendages and the staminodes have raised glands on their surface.

[2] When Alex George reviewed the genus in 1991 he described the section and gave it the name Corynatoca.

[1][3] The name "Corynatoca" is from the Greek koryne (a club) and atakos (barren), referring to the unusual staminodes.

[3] The type and only species in this section is Verticordia ovalifolia.