Dodonaea sinuolata
Dodonaea sinuolata is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a dioecious, spreading shrub with imparipinnate leaves with mostly 8 to 14 side leaflets, flowers in groups of three or four flowers in axillary cymes, each flower with four sepals, eight stamens, and capsules usually with four leathery wings.
Description
Dodonaea sinuolata is a spreading, dioecious shrub that typically grows to a height of up to. Its leaves are imparipinnate long on a petiole long, with mostly 8 to 14 linear to lance-shaped side leaflets with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide, sometimes with wavy or toothed edges. The end leaflet is similar to the side leaflets, but shorter and lobe-like. The flowers are arranged in axils in cymes of 3 or 4, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers have four egg-shaped sepals long that fall off as the flowers open. There are eight stamens and the ovary is glabrous. The fruit is a glabrous, usually four-winged, broadly elliptic capsule, long and wide, the wings leathery and wide.Taxonomy
Dodonaea sinuolata was first formally described in 1984 by Judith Gay West in the journal Brunonia from specimens collected near Texas in 1910 by John Luke Boorman.In the same edition of Brunonia, West described two subspecies of D. sinuolata, and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:Dodonaea sinuolata subsp. acrodentata J.G.West has leaves usually long on a petiole long.Dodonaea sinuolata J.G.West subsp. sinuolata has leaves usually long on a petiole long.