Billardiera drummondii

Billardiera drummondii is a slender climber in the Pittosporaceae family, native to the south-west of Western Australia, which grows in Eucalypt woodland on coastal soils.[4] Its flowers are blue to purple and seen in January.[4]

Billardiera drummondii
as Sollya drummondii (from Gartenflora, 1859)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Apiales
Family:	Pittosporaceae
Genus:	Billardiera
Species:	B. drummondii
Binomial name
Billardiera drummondii (C.Morren) L.W.Cayzer & Crisp[1][2]
Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium
Synonyms[3]
Sollya drummondii C.Morren

In the redescription of the genus Billardiera of Cayzer, Crisp and Telford in 2004,[2] plants in the genus are said to have:

• clawed petals
  
• petals briefly cohering
  
• angular filaments
  
• anther apices reflexed
  
• non-axile placentation
  
• fruit indehiscent
  
• exocarp thin, leathery, not brittle
  
• fleshy mesocarp
  
• seeds inserted in two rows per loculus
  
• seed insertion from top to bottom of chamber
  
• fruit not brown
  
• fruit apparently unilocular

References

1. "Billardiera drummondii". Australian Plant Name Index (APNI), IBIS database. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, Australian Government.
2. Cayzer, L.W., Crisp, M.D. & Telford, I.R.H. (2004) Cladistic analysis and revision of Billardiera (Pittosporaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 17(1): 121-123, Fig. 38. doi:10.1071/SB03028 (request text)
3. Govaerts, R. et. al. (2018) Plants of the world online: Billardiera drummondii'. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
4. "Billardiera drummondii". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.