Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
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)
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