Citation: F. Muell., J. Trans. Vict. Inst. 1:29 (1855).

Synonymy: B. pseudocymosa Klatt, Linnaea 28:571 (1857).

Common name: Sweet apple-berry, love fruit.

Description:
Twiner or spreading shrub; leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, 18-65 x 2-10 mm, both surfaces of mature leaves glabrous or with scattered hairs, margins softly white-ciliate.

Inflorescence terminal, corymbose; sepals brown, lanceolate, 4-6 x 1-1.5 mm, villous along the margins, densely so on the inner surface; petals spathulate, acuminate, 11-20 x 4-5 mm, sparsely villous at the apex and along the margins of the claw; filaments winged in the lower half; ovary glabrous or silky-pubescent, 4.5-6 mm long.

Fruit a berry, glabrous or sparsely pubescent, 8-13 x 6-7 mm; seeds dark-brown, rugose or verrucose, irregularly shaped, 1.5-3 mm diam.

	Billardiera cymosa
Image source: pl. 16left in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

	Billardiera cymosa
Image source: fig 232c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Cochrane et al. (1968) Flowers and plants of Victoria, fig. 156.

Distribution:    Vic. (western section). Conservation status: native Flowering time: mainly Nov. — Jan.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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