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Dodonaea malvacea

Family
Sapindaceae (Soapberry & maple family)
Grows as
Shrub
Native range
N. Queensland
Climate
seasonally dry tropical

About

Dodonaea malvacea is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to a Queensland. It is a shrub with oblong, elliptic or egg-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, flowers arranged singly or in small racemes with linear or egg-shaped sepals and eight to ten stamens, and four to eight narrowly winged capsules.

Where it grows

This species of Dodonaea grows in open forest on sandy and gravelly ridges on Cape York Peninsula, between Heathlands Regional Park north of Shelburne, and Mareeba.

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 malvacea 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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