Dodonaea barklyana
Dodonaea barklyana is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is a shrub with elliptic or oblong, sometimes wavy leaves, flowers arranged in small racemes, and oval to more or less spherical capsules with three or four minute, knob-like triangular wings.
Description
Dodonaea barklyana is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to. Its leaves are oblong or elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long, often clustered and sometimes wavy. The flowers are usually borne in small racemes on the ends of branches, each flower on a pedicel long, with five to seven pointed elliptic sepals long and 10 to 22 stamens. The fruit is an oval or more or less spherical capsule, long and wide, with three or four knob-like, triangular wings long and wide.
Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1984 by Sally T. Reynolds who gave it the name Distichostemon barklyanus in the journal Austrobaileya, based on specimens collected south of Elliott in 1969. In 2010, M.G. Harrington transferred the species to Dodonaea as D. barklyana in Australian Systematic Botany. The specific epithet refers to the Barkly Tableland, where the species is common.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Dodonaea is common on the Barkly Tableland in the Northern Territory and Queensland, where it grows on rocky hillsides and outcrops.
Dodonaea barklyana is listed as of "least concern" under the Northern Territory Government Territory Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act and the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.