Английская Википедия:Billardiera variifolia
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Billardiera variifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to the southwest of Western Australia. It is a twining shrub or climber with elliptic adult leaves and groups of deep purple flowers that fade to blue as they age.
Description
Billardiera variifolia is twining shrub or climber that typically grows to a height of up to Шаблон:Cvt and has both seedling, intermediate and adult leaves on the same plant. Its seedling leaves are egg-shaped and irregularly lobed or toothed, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide. Adult leaves are narrowly elliptic, Шаблон:Cvt long, Шаблон:Cvt wide, sessile and have wavy edges. The flowers are arranged in groups with densely shaggy-hairy, sepal-like bracts Шаблон:Cvt long at the base. The sepals are Шаблон:Cvt long, green with purple streaks and shaggy-hairy. The petals are deep purple, fading to blue as they age, spatula-shaped and Шаблон:Cvt long. Flowering occurs in from October to December or from January to May and the mature fruit is a spindle-shaped berry Шаблон:Cvt long.[1][2]
Taxonomy
Billardiera variifolia was formally described in 1824 by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in his Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.[3][4] The specific epithet (variifolia) means "changeable-leaved".[5]
Distribution and habitat
This species grows in open woodland, often near creeks and in gullies, often with Billardiera drummondii and is found in the Avon Wheatbelt, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Swan Coastal Plain and Warren bioregions of south-western Western Australia, especially in the Albany and Stirling Ranges areas.[1][2]
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