Английская Википедия:Billardiera viridiflora

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Billardiera viridiflora is a species of flowering plant in the family Pittosporaceae and is endemic to a small area in the north-west of Tasmania. It is a twining shrub that has narrowly elliptic leaves and pendent greenish yellow flowers that turn a deeper yellow as they age.

Description

Billardiera viridiflora is a twining shrub or climber, its oldest stems reddish brown. The adult leaves are narrowly elliptic, about Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide on a petiole up to Шаблон:Cvt long. The flowers are arranged singly on slender, down-turned peduncles up to Шаблон:Cvt long. The sepals are narrowly egg-shaped, greenish-mauve, and the petals are greenish yellow, turning deeper yellow as they age, up to Шаблон:Cvt long, the petal lobes spatula-shaped. Ths species is similar to B. longiflora but has bright blue pollen. Flowering occurs from November to January and the mature fruit is an oblong, purple berry Шаблон:Cvt long, containing reddish brown seeds.[1][2]

Taxonomy

Billardiera viridiflora was first formally described in 2004 by Lindy W. Cayzer and David L. Jones in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected near Marrawah in 1998.[3] The specific epithet (viridiflora) means "green-flowered".[4]

Distribution and habitat

This species of billardiera grows in moist forest near Marrawah in north-west Tasmania.[1]`

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