Sweet apple-berry | |
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In the Australian National Botanic Gardens | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Asterids |
Order: | Apiales |
Family: | Pittosporaceae |
Genus: | Billardiera |
Species: | B. lehmanniana |
Binomial name | |
Billardiera lehmanniana | |
Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium |
Billardiera lehmanniana, commonly known as kurup, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to Western Australia. It is a glabrous shrub or climber that has linear to oblong leaves with the edges curved upwards and large groups of flowers with widely spreading pale mauve petals that darken as they age.
Billardiera lehmanniana is glabrous shrub or woody climber that has many short side branches, although it is often slow to develop a climbing habit. The adult leaves are linear to oblong, 25–28 mm (0.98–1.10 in) long and 6–13 mm (0.24–0.51 in) wide on a short petiole. The edges of the leaves curve upwards, the base of the leaves is stem-clasping. The flowers are arranged in panicles of many flowers with leaf-like bracts at the base. The sepals are greenish yellow, 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long and sparsely hairy. The petals are pale mauve pink, 10–12 mm (0.39–0.47 in) long, and widely spreading, darkening as they age. Flowering occurs from August to December and the mature fruit is a berry 5.5 mm (0.22 in) long, containing a few reddish-brown seeds. [2] [3]
Billardiera lehmanniana was first formally described in 1862 by Ferdinand von Mueller in The Plants Indigenous to the Colony of Victoria. [4] Mueller considered B. lehmanniana to be synonym of Marianthus angustifolius, described by Alois (Aloys) Putterlick in Lehmann's Plantae Preissianae . [5] [6] The specific epithet (lehmanniana) honours Johann Georg Christian Lehmann. [7]
Kurup grows around salt lakes, on river flats and on granite in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee bioregions of Western Australia. [2] [3]
Eremophila brevifolia, also known as spotted eremophila, is a flowering plant in the figwort family, Scrophulariaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, open, spindly shrub with sticky, short, serrated leaves and white to pink flowers and is only known from a few scattered populations.
Grevillea paniculata, commonly known as kerosene bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a dense shrub with divided leaves, the lobes linear, and more or less spherical clusters of white to cream-coloured flowers.
Seringia integrifolia, commonly known as common firebush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae and endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a small, much-branched shrub, its young growth densely covered with woolly, white or rust-coloured hairs. The leaves are oblong, 8.5–17 mm (0.33–0.67 in) long, more or less glabrous on the upper surface and densely covered with woolly white hairs on the lower surface. The flowers are arranged in small, loose groups with thin, egg-shaped bracts that fall off as the flowers open. The sepal lobes are broad, pointed, mostly 6.5–8.5 mm (0.26–0.33 in) long and the ovary has 5 carpels with about 4 ovules in each. The fruit is a spherical, softly hairy capsule.
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