Dodonaea inaequifolia
Dodonaea inaequifolia is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect, dioecious shrub with imparipinnate leaves with 17 to 23 linear, channelled leaflets, flowers arranged in cymes of up to six flowers with usually six stamens, and three-winged capsules.
Description
Dodonaea inaequifolia is an erect, dioecious, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of up to. Its leaves are imparipinnate, long with 17 to 23 linear leaflets, long, wide and channelled on the upper surface, on a petiole long. The flowers are borne in cymes in leaf axils with two to six flowers, each flower on a pedicel long. The three or four sepals are egg-shaped, long fall off as the flowers mature, and there are usually six stamens. The ovary is glabrous or with a few soft hairs near the tip. The fruit is an oval, three- or rarely four-winged capsule, long and wide, the wings wide and membranous.
Taxonomy and naming
Dodonaea inaequifolia was first formally described in 1858 by Nikolai Turczaninow in the Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou from specimens collected by James Drummond. The specific epithet means 'uneven leaved'.
This species of Dodonaea grows in semi-arid mallee-heath, mallee scrub or open woodland between Dirk Hartog Island and Southern Cross in the Avon Wheatbelt, Carnarvon, Coolgardie, Geraldton Sandplains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee, Murchison and Yalgoo bioregions of south-western Western Australia.
Dodonaea inaequifolia is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.