Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Dodonaea boroniifolia
Common name
Fern-leaf hop-bush, Hairy hop-bush
Family
Sapindaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, heath, shrubland, and rocky areas. Tablelands. Ranges north from west of Milton.
Notes
Shrub to 4 m high. Branchlets cylindrical or slightly angular, densely covered with simple hairs. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.6–4 cm long, compound, with 7–17 leaflets, each 0.25–1 cm long, 1.5–5.5 mm wide, sticky, hairless to hairy, margins rolled or curved down, tips 3–6-toothed or -lobed. 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 sepals each 2–4 mm long, falling early. Flowers 2 or 3 together. Flowers autumn and spring. Seed case 4-winged, 8–20 mm long, 10–18 mm wide, hairless or sometimes hairy; wings 2.5–5 mm wide, membranous.
Hybrids of Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata and Dodonaea boroniifolia occur in areas of overlapping distribution.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dodonaea~boroniifolia (accessed 12 January, 2021)
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