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Dodonaea polyandra

Dodonaea polyandra
Photo: G. Sankowsky, CC BY-SA 4.0
Family
Sapindaceae (Soapberry & maple family)
Grows as
Tree, Shrub
Native range
New Guinea to NE. Queensland
Climate
wet tropical

About

Dodonaea polyandra is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is native to Queensland, Australia and New Guinea. It is a spreading, dioecious shrub or tree with simple elliptic leaves, flowers arranged in panicles on the ends of branches, the flowers usually with four sepals and 11 to 14 stamens, and capsules usually with two wings.

Where it grows

This species of Dodonaea grows on the edges of rainforest or in open woodland in sandy or gravelly soil on the north and east of Cape York Peninsula, in the White Mountains National Park and in the Western Province (Papua New Guinea) of New Guinea.

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 polyandra 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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