Family: Pittosporaceae
Billardiera bignoniacea
Citation:
E. Bennett, Nuytsia 2:185 (1978).
Synonymy: Marianthus bignoniaceus F. Muell., Trans. Phil. Soc. Vic. 1:6 (1854).
Common name: Orange bell creeper (or climber).
Description:
Slender twiner; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute, cordate at the base, 12-87 x 3-30 mm, scattered-pubescent on both surfaces denser along the veins.
Flowers solitary, drooping; sepals united at the base, lanceolate, 3.5-5 x 1-2 mm, villous with long white or golden hairs on both surfaces; corolla greenish-yellow to red, sparsely pubescent; tube 15-19 mm long, abruptly contracted at the base, partially splitting from below with age, free lobes 2-5 x 2-3.5 mm; anthers visible at the top of the tube; ovary densely villous, 5-6 mm long.
Fruit a dehiscent capsule, pubescent, narrow-oblong, 10-12 mm long; seeds spherical, 1-1.5 mm diam., dark-brown to black, tuberculate.
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Image source: fig 232a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Image source: pl. 16right in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cochrane et al. (1968) Flowers and plants of Victoria, fig. 107.
Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Nov. — Feb.
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SA Distribution Map based
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Biology:
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