Dodonaea amplisemina
Dodonaea amplisemina is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to inland Western Australia. It is a dioecious shrub with many stems at the base, simple, sessile, narrowly linear leaves, flowers arranged singly, and spherical or oval capsules usually with three locules.
Description
Dodonaea amplisemina is a dioecious shrub with many stems at the base, and that typically grows up to high and wide. The branchlets are woody with two kinds of leaves within a cluster, some narrowly linear, long and wide, and others narrowly egg-shaped or narrowly elliptic, long and wide. The flowers are arranged singly on peduncles long. The four to six sepals are narrowly egg-shaped to egg-shaped, long and wide and there are 8 stamens equal to or longer than the sepals, the anthers long. Flowering has been recorded in August and the fruit is a capsule, long, wide, usually with three locules containing three to six shiny black spherical seeds.
Taxonomy and naming
Dodonaea amplisemina was first formally described in 2007 by Kelly Anne Shepherd and Barbara Lynette Rye in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected on Ninghan Station by Susan J. Patrick in 1993. The specific epithet means 'large seeds'.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Dodonaea grows in small, isolated populations on rocky hills in sandy clay from north-east of Meekatharra to south of Paynes Find in the Avon Wheatbelt, Gascoyne, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of inland Western Australia.
Conservation status
Dodonaea amplisemina is listed as "Priority Four" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions, meaning that it is rare or near threatened.