




Billardiera fraseri
Common name: Elegant Pronaya
Meaning of name:
Billardiera honours Jacques Julien Houton de la Billardiere (1755 – 1834), the botanist on the Bruni d’Entrecasteaux’s 1791-1794 voyage. Fraseri honours Charles Fraser (1788 – 1831), first superintendent of the Sydney botanical gardens and colonial botanist.
Distribution:
Occurs in the southwest of Western Australia.
Description:
A twining shrub. The flowers are produced in January and February.
References:
Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings, a Glossary. FA Sharr. 1996.
Flora of the Perth Region. NG Marchant, JR Wheeler, BL Rye, EM Bennett, NS Lander, TD Macfarlane. 1987.
Atlas of Living Australia https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://id.biodiversity.org.au/taxon/apni/51442313
Florabase https://florabase.dbca.wa.gov.au/browse/profile/25788