Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Dodonaea rhombifolia

Male flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Royal Botanic Gardens Mt Annan near Campbelltown

Seed cases. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Stems with seed cases. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Line drawings. k. leaves and seed case. M Moir, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Broad-leaf hop-bush

Family

Sapindaceae

Where found

Shrubland, rocky areas, stream banks, and gorges. Ranges south from Deua National Park.

Notes

Shrub to about 2.5 m high. Branchlets angular, ribbed or flattened. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4.5–9.5 cm long, 14–40 mm wide, hairless, usually white-spotted below, tips pointed, margins entire, and rolled down. Male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers with 0 petals, 4 sepals, 2–3.4 mm long, falling early. Flowers in clusters, sometimes single. Flowers spring and summer. Seed cases 4-winged, 10–13 mm long, 15–24 mm wide, hairless; wings 6–8.5 mm wide, membranous.

Rare Vic.

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