Billardiera uniflora

Billardiera uniflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to part of the south-east of South Australia. It is a glabrous, woody climber with narrowly elliptic leaves and pendent yellow flowers arranged singly or in pairs.

Description

Billardiera uniflora is glabrous, woody climber with narrowly elliptic leaves, long and wide with wavy edges. The flowers are arranged singly or in pairs on a thin, down-curved, more or less glabrous peduncle long. The sepals are egg-shaped, long and about wide. The petals are yellow and turn pinkish-red as they age, long and wide. Flowering occurs in August and September and the mature fruit is a glabrous oblong berry long containing brown seeds long.

Taxonomy

Billardiera uniflora was formally described in 1978 by Eleanor Marion Bennett in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected near Port Lincoln. The specific epithet refers to the usually single-flowered inflorescence.

Distribution and habitat

This species grows in mallee scrub and coastal heath on limestone and is endemic to the Mount Lofty and Port Lincoln areas and Kangaroo Island in south-eastern South Australia.