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 1sigfig=1NaNsigfig=1 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.[1] When Alex George reviewed the genus in 1991, he described the section and gave it the name Unguiculata.[2] [3] The name Unguiculata is the diminutive form of the Latin word unguis meaning "little claw" or "little talon"[4] 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.