Dodonaea boroniifolia
Dodonaea boroniifolia, commonly known as fern-leaf hop-bush or hairy hop-bush, is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a spreading to erect shrub with imparipinnate leaves, the leaflets egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, flowers arranged in pairs or threes in leaf axils, and broadly elliptical capsules with four broadly elliptic wings.
Description
Dodonaea boroniifolia is a usually a dioecious, spreading to erect shrub that typically grows to a height of. Its branches are densely hairy and its leaves are imparipinnate, long with six to sixteen narrowly egg-shaped leaflets with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, the petiole long. The flowers are arranged in pairs or groups of three in leaf axils, each flower on a pedicel long, with four lance-shaped to egg-shaped, sticky sepals long but that fall off as the flowers develop. There are eight to ten densely hairy stamens that are longer than the sepals. The fruit is a broadly elliptical capsule, long and wide, with four membranous wings wide.
Taxonomy
Dodonaea boroniifolia was first formally described in 1831 by George Don in his book, A General History of Dichlamydeous Plants. The specific epithet means 'having leaves similar to the genus Boronia'.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Dodonaea grows in a variety of habitats including forest, open woodland and heath from Charters Towers in north-eastern Queensland, through central and eastern New South Wales to north-central and north-eastern Victoria.
Dodonaea barklyana is listed as "endangered" in Victoria, under the Victorian Government Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act 1988.