Billardiera laxiflora (Benth.) E.M.Benn.

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Pittosporaceae > Billardiera

Characteristics

Slender climber, stems red-brown, corrugated.Seedling leaves apically trilobed, dentate, persisting and distinctive. Adult leaves petiolate; lamina almost linear, 8–20 mm long, 1–2 mm wide, margin recurving. Inflorescences umbellate; rachis to 10–12 mm long; basal leaf-like bract persisting; stalks 6–10 mm, slender, lax. Sepals 2–4.5 mm long, lobes unequal; mauve and green, visibly hairy. Petals 4–8 mm long, clawed, briefly cohering, outer margins recurving, apices recurving, white, tinged, spotted pink, mauve, particularly blade, darkening with age. Stamens free, filaments pale yellow tapering to a wider base; anthers white recurving; pollen yellow. Pistil with basal nectary; not stipitate, ovary to 11 mm long, silky hairy, ridged. Fruit berry-like with seeds in separate dry cells, 42 mm long, 7 mm diam., fusiform. 
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Growth support climber
Foliage retention evergreen
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Grows in remnant eucalypt woodland and tall forest, in littered grey sand and sandy clay on laterite.
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Germination duration (days) 30 - 60
Germination temperacture (C°) 12
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Distribution

Billardiera laxiflora world distribution map, present in Australia

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:684266-1
WFO ID wfo-0000565341
COL ID 68KTY
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Synonyms

Marianthus laxiflorus Billardiera laxiflora