''Billardiera drummondii'' is a slender climber in the
Pittosporaceae family, native to the south-west of
Western Australia
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, which grows in Eucalypt woodland on coastal soils.
Its flowers are blue to purple and seen in January.
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In the redescription of the genus ]Billardiera
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and Telford in 2004,[ 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
drummondii
Flora of Western Australia
Plants described in 2004
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