Billardiera ovalis

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Phylogeny & links to associated information:

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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 (ovalis) means "oval" or "elliptic"

Flowers:                  

• The flowers are arranged singly on hairy peduncles 8–9 mm long

• The sepals are broadly egg-shaped, reddish-purple and overlap each other

• 2.0–2.5 mm long and about 1.5 mm wide

• The petals are creamy-yellow, turning wine red as they age, and less than 20 mm long

• Flowering occurs in summer

Fruit:                         

• The mature fruit is usually a bright red, egg-shaped berry about 10 mm long

Leaves:         

• Clustered on short side-shoots and are spatula-shaped at first

• Thick, both surfaces pale green and waxy, streaked with purplish-red on the lower surface

• Later egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, or elliptic

• 16–24 mm long, about 5 mm wide and more or less sessile

Stem & branches: 

• x

Roots:         

• x

Habit:        

• It is a woody, creeping scrambler with shaggy-hairy new shoot

Habitat:   

• Grows in scrub on coastal dolerite

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to Tasmania

• From King Island to south-eastern Tasmania

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • Billardiera ovalis was first formally described in 1834 by John Lindley in Edwards's Botanical Register