| Pittosporum phillyreoides | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Asterids |
| Order: | Apiales |
| Family: | Pittosporaceae |
| Genus: | Pittosporum |
| Species: | P. phillyreoides |
| Binomial name | |
| Pittosporum phillyreoides | |
Pittosporum phillyreoides, with the common names weeping pittosporum and willow pittosporum, is a shrub or small columnar tree in the Apiales order, endemic to Australia. [1]
This species is subject to some taxonomic confusion. It was originally published by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1824, as a species native to a narrow coastal strip of northern Western Australia, the epithet "phillyreoides" referring to a similarity with Phillyrea . Two more Western Australian species — P. angustifolium and P. ligustrifolium — were published over the next 15 years, and George Bentham later lumped together all three as a single species under the misspelled name P. phillyraeoides. These three were re-split in a 2000 classification revision. [2] but in the 2001 ARS Systematic Botanists revision, Pittosporum phillyreoides was recombined and became a synonym for Pittosporum angustifolium. [3] Neither circumscription has yet won universal acceptance.
The 'original true' Pittosporum phillyreoides named by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle was only native to a narrow coastal strip of northern Western Australia.
When considered as the synonym, Pittosporum angustifolium is native across Australia in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory. [4]
Pittosporum phillyreoides, a name still seen used in the plant nursery trade, is cultivated as an ornamental tree for planting in gardens. It has a somewhat columnar growth with weeping form and foliage texture, and is drought tolerant once established.
Pittosporaceae is a family of flowering plants that consists of 200–240 species of trees, shrubs, and lianas in 9 genera. Habitats range from tropical to temperate climates of the Afrotropical, Indomalayan, Oceanian, and Australasian realms. The type genus is Pittosporum Banks ex Gaertn.
Bedfordia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Asteraceae. The genus includes 3 species, all endemic to Australia.
Billardiera is a genus of small vines and shrubs in the family, Pittosporaceae, which is endemic to Australia. The genus was first formally described in 1793 by botanist James Edward Smith who named it in honour of Jacques Labillardière, a French botanist.
Bursaria spinosa is a small tree or shrub in the family Pittosporaceae. The species occurs mainly in the eastern and southern half of Australia and not in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. Reaching 10 m (35 ft) high, it bears fragrant white flowers at any time of year but particularly in summer. A common understorey shrub of eucalyptus woodland, it colonises disturbed areas and fallow farmland. It is an important food plant for several species of butterflies and moths, particularly those of the genus Paralucia, and native bees.
Rhytidosporum is a genus of flowering plants within the family Pittosporaceae. The type species is Rhytidosporum procumbens (Hook.) F.Muell.
Auranticarpa is a genus of trees in the family Pittosporaceae. All six species occur in monsoonal forest and rainforest margins in Northern Australia. The species, all formerly included in the genus Pittosporum, are as follows:
Pittosporum multiflorum, known as the orange thorn, is a shrub growing in eastern Australia. The dense foliage provides a habitat for small birds and animals. It grows on shales or volcanic soils, from Eden, New South Wales north to Queensland, usually in or near rainforest areas.
Billardiera heterophylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae, known by the common name bluebell creeper. It is native to Western Australia, but is grown as an ornamental plant in appropriate climates worldwide. It can sometimes be found growing in the wild as an introduced species or garden escapee, for example in other Australian states and in California, where it is popular in landscaping. It is sometimes considered a weed.
Marianthus is a genus of flowering plants within the family Pittosporaceae.
Pittosporum angustifolium is a shrub or small tree growing throughout inland Australia. Common names include weeping pittosporum, butterbush, cattle bush, native apricot, apricot tree, gumbi gumbi, cumby cumby, meemeei, poison berry bush, and berrigan.
Weeping Pittosporum may refer to several Pittosporum species, including:
Billardiera fraseri is a species of plant in the family, Pittosporaceae, which is endemic to Western Australia.
Billardiera fusiformis is a species of plant in the family, Pittosporaceae, which is endemic to Western Australia.
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. Its flowers are blue to purple and seen in January.
Marianthus candidus, commonly known as white marianthus, is a shrub of the pittosporum family, Pittosporaceae native to southwest Western Australia.
Marianthus tenuis is a shrub of the pittosporum family, Pittosporaceae native to southwest Western Australia.
Marianthus drummondianus is a shrub of the pittosporum family, Pittosporaceae native to southwest Western Australia.
Marianthus paralius is a shrub in the family Pittosporaceae native to southwest Western Australia.
Lindy Webster Cayzer CF is an Australian botanist.
Rhytidosporum inconspicuum is an inconspicuous, rhizomatous shrub in the pittosporum family, Pittosporaceae. The species is found in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.
