Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Dodonaea multijuga

Flowering stems (male). Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering stems (female). Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Stems with seed cases. Photographer Don Wood, Flat Rock State Forest west of Ulladulla

Common name

 A Hop-bush

Family

Sapindaceae

Where found

Forest and stream banks. Coast, ranges, and tablelands. Mainly in the ranges.

Notes

 Shrub to 1.5 m high. Branchlets hairy with short bent hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2.5–6 cm long, compound, with mostly 17–29 or more leaflets, each usually 0.4–0.7 cm long, 1–4 mm wide, surfaces hairy, margins rolled down, tips sometimes obscurely 2- or 3-toothed, the terminal leaflet lobe-like. Flowers male, female, or bisexual. Flowers with 0 petals, and 4, rarely 5, sepals, 3–4 mm long, falling early. Flowers in branched clusters. Seed cases 3-winged, 13–16.5 mm long, 15–20 mm wide, sparsely hairy, wings 3–4 mm wide, leathery.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dodonaea~multijuga  (accessed 12 January, 2021)