Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Dodonaea procumbens
Common name
Creeping Hop-bush, Trailing hop-bush
Family
Sapindaceae
Where found
Open forest, woodland, grassland, roadsides, and bare patches. Tablelands south of Goulburn.
Notes
Prostrate shrub to 0.1 m tall and to 1.5 m diameter. Branches angular or flattened, sometimes weakly ribbed, hairy with minute hairs, often rooting at the nodes. Leaves alternating along the stems, 0.8–3 cm long, 4–9 mm wide, wedge-shaped, glossy, margins rolled down, tips usually with 1–4 teeth. 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 4-7 yellow, orange, red or pink sepals 2–3 mm long, falling early. Flowers single or paired. Flowers Spring. Seed case 3-4 winged, reddish, 10–13 mm long, 8–10.5 mm wide, hairless; wings about 0.5 mm wide.
Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
Vulnerable Vic.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10246 (accessed 5 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dodonaea~procumbens (accessed 5 January, 2021)
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