Family: Pittosporaceae
Billardiera cymosa
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.
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Image source: pl. 16left in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Image source: fig 232c 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. 156.
Distribution:
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Vic. (western section).
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: mainly Nov. — Jan.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
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Author:
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