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Hop Bush

Dodonaea lanceolata

Hop Bush
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Sapindaceae (Soapberry & maple family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
N. Australia
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Dodonaea lanceolata, commonly known as pirrungu, or yellow hop-bush, is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is an erect shrub with simple elliptic to oblong or lance-shaped leaves, flowers arranged in panicles on the ends of branches with usually eight stamens, and three-winged capsules.

Where it grows

Pirrungu occurs in northern and central Australia. Variety lanceolata grows on stony ridges and near rocky watercourses in the Hamersley Range and the Kimberley regions of Western Australia, in the Northern Territory and western Queensland. Variety subsessilifolia grows in open forest and is restricted to eastern Queensland.

Other Dodonaea plants

Dodonaea adenophora · Dodonaea amblyophylla · Dodonaea amplisemina · Coast Hop Bush · Dodonaea arnhemica · Dodonaea barklyana · Crinkled Hop Bush · Dodonaea boroniifolia · Dodonaea bursariifolia · Dodonaea caespitosa · Camfield's Hop Bush · Horny Hop Bush

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dodonaea lanceolata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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