Billardiera
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Billardiera is a genus
of small vines and shrubs 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.
Species include:
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of small vines and shrubs which is endemic to Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
. The genus was first formally described in 1793 by botanist James Edward Smith
James Edward Smith
Sir James Edward Smith was an English botanist and founder of the Linnean Society.Smith was born in Norwich in 1759, the son of a wealthy wool merchant. He displayed a precocious interest in the natural world...
who named it in honour of Jacques Labillardière
Jacques Labillardière
Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière was a French naturalist noted for his descriptions of the flora of Australia. Labillardière was a member of a voyage in search of the La Pérouse expedition...
, a French botanist.
Species include:
- Billardiera coriacea Benth.
- Billardiera cymosaBillardiera cymosaBillardiera cymosa, Sweet apple-berry, is a small vine native to woodland and coastal heath of Victoria and South Australia.The leaves are slender and stems are twining. Flowers are bluish, greenish or cream. The fruit is a sausage shaped berry 1–1.5 cm long....
F.Muell. - Billardiera drummondii (C.MorrenCharles François Antoine MorrenCharles François Antoine Morren , was a Belgian botanist and horticulturist, and Director of the Jardin botanique de l’Université de Liège....
) L.Cayzer & Crisp - Billardiera floribunda (Putt.) F.Muell. (White-flowered Billardiera)
- Billardiera fraseri (Hook.) F.Muell. (Elegant Pronaya)
- Billardiera fusiformis Labill. (Australian Bluebell)
- Billardiera heterophyllaBillardiera heterophyllaBillardiera 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 it is grown as an ornamental plant in appropriate climates worldwide...
(Lindl.) L.Cayzer & Crisp (Bluebell Creeper, Purple Appleberry, Australian Bluebell) - Billardiera laxiflora (Benth.) E.M.Benn.
- Billardiera lehmanniana F.Muell.
- Billardiera longifloraBillardiera longifloraBillardiera longiflora, Purple apple-berry, is a small Australian vine found in cool, moist forests from southern New South Wales to Tasmania, where it is native. It was described by French botanist Jacques Labillardière in 1805....
Labill. - Billardiera macrantha Hook.f.
- Billardiera mutabilis Salisb. (Climbing Appleberry)
- Billardiera nesophila L.Cayzer & D.L.Jones
- Billardiera ovalis Lindl.
- Billardiera procumbens (Hook.)
- Billardiera rubens L.Cayzer, Crisp & I.Telford
- Billardiera scandensBillardiera scandensBillardiera scandens, commonly known as Apple Berry or Apple Dumpling, is a small shrub or twining plant of the Pittosporaceae family which occurs in forests in the coastal and tableland areas of all states and territories in Australia, apart from the Northern Territory and Western Australia...
Sm. (Hairy Appleberry) - Billardiera sericophora F.Muell.
- Billardiera speciosa (Endl.)
- Billardiera uniflora E.M.Benn.
- Billardiera variifolia DC.
- Billardiera venusta (Putt.) L.Cayzer & Crisp
- Billardiera versicolor F.Muell. ex Klatt (Pale Appleberry)
- Billardiera villosa (Turcz.) E.M.Benn.
- Billardiera viridiflora L.Cayzer & D.L.Jones