Dodonaea glandulosa
Dodonaea glandulosa is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to inland parts of the south-west of Western Australia. It is usually an erect, spreading, dioecious shrub with imparipinnate leaves with usually 11 to 19 oblong leaflets, flowers arranged singly with five or six stamens, and oval capsules.
Description
Dodonaea glandulosa is an erect, spreading, usually dioecious shrub that typically grows to a height of. Its leaves are imparipinnate, long with 11 to 19 oblong to broadly egg-shaped leaflets with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, on a petiole long. The flowers are borne singly on a pedicel long. The sepals are egg-shaped to lance-shaped, long and there are five or six, rarely seven or eight stamens, the ovary with glandular hairs and soft hairs. The fruit is an oval, rarely elliptic capsule long and wide without appendages.
Dodonaea glandulosa was first formally described in 1984 by Judith Gay West in the journal Brunonia from specimens she collected north-west of Corrigin in 1978. The specific epithet means 'gland-bearing'.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Dodonaea grows in semi-arid mixed mallee scrub on undulating plains and breakaways near Kulin and an area east of Lake King-Ravensthorpe in the Mallee bioregion of inland south-west Western Australia.
Conservation status
Dodonaea glandulosa is listed as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.