Family: Pittosporaceae
Billardiera versicolor
Citation:
F. Muell. ex Klatt, Linnaea 28:571 (1857).
Synonymy: Pronaya muelleriana Turcz., Bull. Soc. Nat. Mosc. 36:561 (1863).
Common name: Sweet (or pale) apple-berry.
Description:
Twiner; leaves lanceolate, 35-62 x 6-17 mm, upper surface glabrous, lower surface sparsely pilose.
Inflorescence terminal, sessile, corymbose to umbel-like, up to 12-ilowereo; sepals ovate, 2-3 x 1-1.5 mm, ciliate; petals spathulate, acuminate, 8-12 mm long, with scattered hairs along the apex of the lamina and along the claw, yellow sometimes suffused with purple or purple; ovary c. 5 x 1.5 mm, glabrous to sericeous.
Fruit a shortly cylindrical berry, glabrous to sparsely pubescent, 18-25 x c. 8 mm; seeds brown, 2-2.5 mm, muricate.
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Image source: fig 232b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Cunningham et al. (1982) Plants of western New South Wales, p. 342.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: FR, EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE. N.S.W.; Vic.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: mainly Sept. — Dec.
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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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