Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Dodonaea truncatiales

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

Stems with seed cases. Photographer Don Wood, Mimosa Rocks National Park east of Bega

Shrub. Photographer jackie Miles

Line drawing. l. leaves, female flowers and seed case. M Moir, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Angular hop-bush

Family

Sapindaceae

Where found

Forest, often near streams. Coast and ranges. Naturalised in the ACT.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m high. Branchlets angular, ribbed, hairy, becoming hairless. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4.5–13.5 cm long, 5–13 mm wide, sticky, tips pointed, margins entire or finely toothed. Male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers with 0 petals, and 4 sepals 1.5–3.5 mm long, falling early. Flowers clustered, rarely single or 2 together. Seed case 3-4 winged, 5.5–8 mm long, 17–25 mm wide, hairless or sparsely hairy; wings 4.5–10 mm wide, membranous.

Vulnerable Vic.

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