Billardiera cymosa
F.Muell. Sweet Apple-berryTwiner or slender ascending shrub, stems glabrescent. Leaves sessile or subsessile, narrowly ovate to narrowly obovate, 2.5–6(–7) cm long, 4–10(–12) mm wide, glabrous or sparsely pilose on margins and/or undersurface. Flowers c. 5–12 in terminal, shortly pedunculate cymes; sepals ovate to lanceolate, 3–6 mm long, sparsely pubescent to villous dorsally, pubescent on inner face; corolla narrowly campanulate, 11–18 mm long, lobes free, acute to acuminate, spreading to recurved near apex, pale blue or pale purplish, minutely ciliate along margins; stamens c. half to two-thirds as long as corolla; ovary glabrous or silky-pubescent, style 1–3 mm long, subequal to or exceeded by stamens. Capsule glabrous or pubescent, ovoid to cylindric, 8–15 mm long; seeds flattened-ellipsoid, c. 2 mm long.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, RobP, GipP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT.
2 subspecies, both occur in Victoria.
This species previously included Billardiera versicolor. See note under that species.
Walsh, N.G.; Albrecht, D.E. (1996). Pittosporaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 526–539. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
SpinningCayzer, L.W.; Crisp, M.D.; Telford, I.R.H. (2004). Cladistic analysis and revision of Billardiera (Pittosporaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 17(1): 83–125.
