Dodonaea tenuifolia
Dodonaea tenuifolia is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to Queensland, Australia. It is a spreading, dioecious shrub with imparipinnate leaves with 9 to 25 side leaflets, flowers in groups of six to ten in axillary cymes, each flower with four sepals, and capsules with four leathery wings.
Description
Dodonaea tenuifolia 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 9 to 25 glabrous, linear side leaflets, mostly long, wide and usually shallowly channelled on the upper surface with a narrowly wedge-shaped base. The flowers are arranged in axils in cymes of 6 to 10, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers have four egg-shaped sepals long that fall off as the flowers open and a glabrous ovary. The fruit is a glabrous, four-winged, oblong capsule, mostly long and wide, the wings leathery and wide.
Taxonomy
Dodonaea tenuifolia was first formally described in 1848 by John Lindley in Thomas Mitchell's Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia. The specific epithet means 'thin- or narrow-leaved'.
Distribution and habitat
This species of Dodonaea occurs mainly between the Atherton Tableland and areas close to the New South Wales border in eastern Queensland where it grows on rocky hillside, often in open forest.
Conservation status
Dodonaea tenuifolia is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.