Dodonaea falcata
Dodonaea falcata is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect shrub with simple, more or less linear leaves, flowers arranged in cymes of three or four, each flower with eight stamens, and 4-winged capsules.
Description
Dodonaea falcata is an erect shrub that typically grows to a height of up to. Its leaves are simple, sessile, more or less linear and curved, long and about wide. The flowers are borne in three- or four-flowered cymes, with egg-shaped sepals, long and eight stamens, the ovary with a few soft hairs. The fruit is a four-winged, capsule long and wide, the wings membranous, wide.
Taxonomy and naming
Dodonaea falcata was first formally described in 1984 by Judith Gay West in the journal Brunonia from specimens collected by Ian Telford in 1969. The specific epithet means 'curved like a sickle'.
Dodonaea falcata grows in forest on granite or sandstone hills between the Stanthorpe-Wallangarra area of south-eastern Queensland and the New England Tableland and between Newcastle, [New South Wales|Newcastle] and Kiama in New South Wales.
Dodonaea falcata is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.