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Feathery Hop Bush

Dodonaea sinuolata

Feathery Hop Bush
Photo: Murray Fagg, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Sapindaceae (Soapberry & maple family)
Grows as
Shrub
Water
Drought tolerant
Native range
SE. Queensland to NE. New South Wales
Climate
subtropical

About

Dodonaea sinuolata is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a dioecious, spreading shrub with imparipinnate leaves with mostly 8 to 14 side leaflets, flowers in groups of three or four flowers in axillary cymes, each flower with four sepals, eight stamens, and capsules usually with four leathery wings.

Where it grows

Subspecies acrodentata grows in red sandy loam on stony ridges in arid and semi-arid areas between Thargomindah, St George and Tambo in Queensland with an isolated occurrence near Hillston in New South Wales. Subspecies sinuolata grows in rocky sites in open forest or woodland between Scone, the Warrumbungles in New South Wales and Chinchilla in 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 sinuolata 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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