Dodonaea divaricata
Dodonaea divaricata is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a spreading shrub with simple, linear to narrowly elliptic leaves, flowers arranged singly with six stamens, and three-angled capsules with horn-like appendages.
Description
Dodonaea divaricata is a dioecious, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of up to. Its leaves are simple, sessile, long and wide, sometimes with up to four irregular teeth on the edges. The flowers are borne singly, the flowers more or less sessile or on a pedicel long. There are usually three linear sepals, long, but that fall off as the flowers open. Each flower has six stamens and the ovary is glabrous or with soft hairs. The fruit is a three-angled, spherical capsule long and wide, with horn-like appendages.
Taxonomy and naming
Dodonaea divaricata was first formally described in 1863 by George Bentham in his Flora Australiensis from specimens collected by James Drummond. The specific epithet means 'spreading at a wide angle'.
This species of Dodonaea grows in open mallee scrub, mallee heath and low wandoo woodland from near Morawa, [Western Australia|Morawa] to Narembeen, in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest and Mallee bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Dodonaea divaricata is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.