Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Dodonaea triquetra

Common name

Large-leaf hop-bush

Family

Sapindaceae

Where found

Forest, woodland, and near streams. Coast, ranges,and occasionally on the tablelands.

Notes

Shrub to 3.5 m high. Branchlets angular to flattened, hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4.5–13 cm long, 10–47 mm wide, hairy, sometimes only on the midrib and margins, rarely hairless, tips drawn out to pointed, margins entire or wavy, surfaces hairless. Male and female flowers on different plants, or male and bisexual flowers on some plants, and female and bisexual flowers on others. Flowers with 0 petals, and 4, rarely 5, sepals 0.6–1 mm long, falling early. Flowers in branched clusters. Flowers mostly summer. Seed cases 3-winged, 8–16 mm long, 10–15 mm wide, hairless; wings 2–5 mm wide, membranous.

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