Billardiera longiflora

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Plant  information

Common name:                unknown  

Conservation status:  unknown

Etymology:   

• The name, Billardiera honours Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière

• The specific epithet (longiflora) means "long-flowered", but this species has shorter flowers that the more common B. macrantha with which it is often confused

Flowers:                  

• Greenish-yellow, pendent, tube-shaped flowers arranged singly and turning blue as they age

• The flowers are arranged singly on a pendent peduncle 10–14 mm long

• The sepals are egg-shaped, 3–5 mm long and purplish-blue 

• The petals are 16–24 mm long and joined at the base, the lobes spreading but not turned back

• Flowering mostly occurs in summer and the mature fruit is a glossy purple berry 13–20 mm long, the seeds about 1.8 mm long

Fruit:                         

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Leaves:         

• Its adult are leaves variably shaped

• At lower altitudes, narrowly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 18–25 mm long and 5–6 mm wide on a petiole 1–2 mm long

• At higher altitudes, the leaves are almost linear, 15–35 mm long and 2–3 mm wide

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Stem & branches: 

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Roots:         

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Habit:        

• A woody twiner or climber 

• Its new shoots are hairy, but become glabrous with age

Habitat:   

• Only occurs in eucalypt woodland and forest 

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to Tasmania

• This species of billardiera 

Additional notes:     

• This species is often confused with the similar Billardiera macrantha of south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania

• Taxonomy

  • Billardiera longiflora was first formally described in 1805 by Jacques Labillardière in his Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen