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Dodonaea peduncularis
Dodonaea peduncularis is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a spreading dioecious shrub with simple, sessile egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, flowers arranged singly or in cymes, the flowers usually with four sepals and eight stamens, and capsules with four wings.
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Description
Dodonaea peduncularis is a spreading dioecious shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in). Its leaves are simple, sessile, egg-shaped to lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 5–18 mm (0.20–0.71 in) long, 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long and concave on the upper surface, with three or four teeth on the end. The flowers are arranged singly or in few-flowered cymes on pedicels usually 2.5–7.5 mm (0.098–0.295 in) long, with four lance-shaped to egg-shaped sepals, 1.3–2.4 mm (0.051–0.094 in) long, and usually eight stamens. The ovary is glabrous. The fruit is a four-winged, broadly oblong capsule 7–12.5 mm (0.28–0.49 in) long and 8–12.5 mm (0.31–0.49 in) wide and glabrous with membranous wings 2–3.5 mm (0.079–0.138 in) wide.
Range & habitat
This species of Dodonaea grows in semi-arid, undulating or flat country in open woodland and hummock grassland in sandy soil, from Charters Towers and southern Queensland and the western slopes and tablelands of New South Wales.
Wikipedia: “Distribution and habitat”
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 978330.