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Billardiera drummondii is a slender climber in the Pittosporaceae family, native to the south-west of Western Australia, which grows in Eucalypt woodland on coastal soils.[4] Its flowers are blue to purple and seen in January.[4]

Billardiera drummondii
as Sollya drummondii (from Gartenflora, 1859)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Asterids
Order:	Apiales
Family:	Pittosporaceae
Genus:	Billardiera
Species:	B. drummondii
Binomial name
Billardiera drummondii (C.Morren) L.W.Cayzer & Crisp[1][2]
Occurrence data from Australasian Virtual Herbarium
Synonyms[3]
Sollya drummondii C.Morren

In the redescription of the genus Billardiera of Cayzer, Crisp and Telford in 2004,[2] plants in the genus are said to have:

• clawed petals
• petals briefly cohering
• angular filaments
• anther apices reflexed
• non-axile placentation
• fruit indehiscent
• exocarp thin, leathery, not brittle
• fleshy mesocarp
• seeds inserted in two rows per loculus
• seed insertion from top to bottom of chamber
• fruit not brown
• fruit apparently unilocular

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