Dodonaea lanceolata var. subsessilifolia J.G.West

West, J.G. (1984) Brunonia 7(1): 50. Type: Queensland, Rockhampton-Marlborough Road, Glen Geddes, 23 04 S.,150 17 E., 10.x.1974, K.A.W. Williams 2, holo: BRI.

Hopbush

Usually flowers and fruits as a shrub about 1-3 m tall.

Terminal buds and young leaves not viscous or varnished. Petioles very short, about 0.1-0.2 cm long, or nil. Leaf blades about 5.5-8 x 1-2.2 cm, glabrous, lateral veins scarcely visible on both the upper and lower surfaces.

Pedicels about 6.3-8.5 mm long. Tepals about 1.8-2.5 x 0.8-1.1 mm. Stamens usually eight but ranging from 7-10, twice as long as the tepals, filaments about 0.2-0.3 mm long, anthers about 3-3.4 x 0.7-1 mm. Styles three, fused together, up to about 15 mm long.

Capsule 3-winged, capsule + wings about 16.5-19 x 14-19 mm, perianth persistent at the base. Seeds about 2-4 per fruit, about 2.8-3.2 x 2.3-2.5 mm. Seeds glossy, laterally compressed, cotyledons coiled, about 9 mm long when unravelled, about as wide as the radicle. Radicle about 5 mm long.

Cotyledons linear, about 25-30 x 2-4 mm. First pair of leaves alternate, glabrous, usually two or 3-lobed at the apex. At the tenth leaf stage: leaf simple, margin smooth. Seed germination time 19 days.

Occurs in CYP, NEQ, CEQ and southwards as far as southern and south-eastern Queensland. Altitudinal range from near sea level to 1100 m. Usually grows in open forest but also found in vine thickets, monsoon forest and on rain forest margins.

An attractive shrub of good shape and easy growth and produces purplish winged fruits that slowly ripen to brown.