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Dodonaea petiolaris

Dodonaea petiolaris
Photo: Kym Nicolson, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Sapindaceae (Soapberry & maple family)
Grows as
Shrub
Water
Drought tolerant
Native range
Australia
Climate
desert or dry shrubland

About

Dodonaea petiolaris is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to Australia. It is an erect, dioecious shrub with simple, broadly lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves, flowers arranged in panicles, the flowers usually with five sepals and six to ten stamens, and glabrous capsules with three wings.

Where it grows

This species of Dodonaea grows on rocky hills, and gibber plains in dry and semi-arid areas of central and northern Western Australia, the Northern Territory, and in north-western New South Wales and south-western 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 petiolaris 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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