Dodonaea polyandra
Dodonaea polyandra is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is native to Queensland, Australia and New Guinea. It is a spreading, dioecious shrub or tree with simple elliptic leaves, flowers arranged in panicles on the ends of branches, the flowers usually with four sepals and 11 to 14 stamens, and capsules usually with two wings.
Description
Dodonaea polyandra is a spreading dioecious shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of up to. Its leaves are simple, elliptic, long, long and glabrous on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in panicles on the ends of branches, each flower on a pedicel long, usually with linear sepals, long that fall off as the flower develops, and 11 to 14 stamens. The ovary is glabrous. The fruit is a two-winged, broadly oblong capsule long and wide and glabrous with membranous wings wide.
Taxonomy
Dodonaea polyandra was first formally described in 1945 by Elmer Drew Merrill and Lily May Perry the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. The specific epithet means 'many-stamens'.
This species of Dodonaea grows on the edges of rainforest or in open woodland in sandy or gravelly soil on the north and east of Cape York Peninsula, in the White Mountains National Park and in the Western Province (Papua New Guinea) of New Guinea.
Dodonaea polyandra is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.