Billardiera longiflora
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Billardiera longiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a woody twiner or climber that has variably-shaped, often elliptic leaves, often varying with altitude, and greenish-yellow, pendent, tube-shaped flowers arranged singly and turning blue as they age. This species is often confused with the similar Billardiera macrantha of south-eastern Australia, including Tasmania.
Description
Billardiera longiflora is a woody twiner or climber, its new shoots hairy, but become glabrous with age. Its adult are leaves variably shaped, at lower altitudes, narrowly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide on a petiole Template:Cvt long. At higher altitudes, the leaves are almost linear, Template:Cvt long and Template:Cvt wide. The flowers are arranged singly on a pendent peduncle Template:Cvt long. The sepals are egg-shaped, Template:Cvt long and purplish-blue. The petals are Template:Cvt long, greenish-yellow, turning blue as they age, 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 Template:Cvt long, the seeds about Template:Cvt long.[1]
Taxonomy
Billardiera longiflora was first formally described in 1805 by Jacques Labillardière in his Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen.[2][3] The specific epithet (longiflora) means "long-flowered",[4] but this species has shorter flowers that the more common B. macrantha with which it is often confused.[1]
Distribution and habitat
This species of billardiera only occurs in eucalypt woodland and forest in Tasmania.[1][5]
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