Dodonaea baueri
Dodonaea baueri, commonly known as crinkled hop-bush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a dioecious, spreading, sometimes prostrate shrub with simple leaves, single or paired flowers and capsules usually with four wings.
Description
Dodonaea baueri is a dioecious, spreading or sometimes prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of up to. Its leaves are simple, broadly oblong to round, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are borne singly, rarely in pairs on a pedicel long, usually with four egg-shaped sepals long, eight stamens and a glabrous ovary. The fruit is usually a four-angled capsule, long, wide.
Taxonomy and naming
Dodonaea baueri was first formally described in 1837 by Stephan Endlicher in the Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel from specimens collected on Salt Island by Ferdinand Bauer.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Dodonaea grows in mallee scrub as an understorey shrub, on rocky hillsides and exposed places on mountain ridges in sandy loam.