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Dodonaea oxyptera

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

About

Dodonaea oxyptera is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is usually a dioecious, spreading shrub with paripinnate leaves usually with 4 to 8 oblong to lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaflets with the narrower end towards the base, flowers arranged singly or in pairs, the flowers usually with four sepals and six to eight stamens, and capsules with 4 wings.

Where it grows

This species of Dodonaea grows on stony ridges in woodland in the Northern Kimberley and Victoria Bonaparte bioregions of Western Australia and is widespread in the Arnhem Coast, Arnhem Plateau, Central Arnhem, Central Kimberley, Daly Basin, Gulf Coastal, Gulf Fall and Uplands, Gulf Plains, Mount Isa Inlier, Pine Creek, Sturt Plateau and Victoria Bonaparte bioregion of the Northern Territory and in north 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 oxyptera 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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