Dodonaea lanceolata
Dodonaea lanceolata, commonly known as pirrungu, or yellow hop-bush, is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is an erect shrub with simple elliptic to oblong or lance-shaped leaves, flowers arranged in panicles on the ends of branches with usually eight stamens, and three-winged capsules.
Description
Dodonaea lanceolata is an erect, dioecious or polygamous shrub that typically grows to a height of. Its leaves are simple, elliptic to lance-shaped, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, sometimes more or less sessile or on a petiole up to long. The flowers are borne in panicles on the ends of branches, each flower on a pedicel long with four lance-shaped to egg-shaped sepals long. There are usually eight stamens and the ovary is glabrous. Flowering occurs from February to October and the fruit is three-winged capsule, long and wide, the membranous wings wide.Taxonomy and naming
Dodonaea lanceolata was first formally described in 1859 by Ferdinand von Mueller in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected in Arnhem Land. The specific epithet means 'lanceolate'.In 1984, Judith Gay West describe two varieties of D. lanceolata in the journal Brunonia and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:Dodonaea lanceolata F.Muell. var. lanceolata has elliptic leaves, tapering at each end, on a petiole usually long.Dodonaea lanceolata var. subsessilifolia J.G.West has more or less sessile, oblong to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base.