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Dodonaea rhombifolia
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Dodonaea rhombifolia

Dodonaea rhombifolia, commonly known as broad-leaf hop-bush is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, dioecious shrub with simple, usually elliptic leaves, flowers arranged in cymess, the flowers usually with four sepals and eight stamens, and capsules with 4 wings.

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Description

Dodonaea rhombifolia is an erect, dioecious shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) and has angular, ribbed or flattened branchlets. Its leaves are simple, usually elliptic, 50–90 mm (2.0–3.5 in) long and 14–27 mm (0.55–1.06 in) wide on a petiole 4–10.5 mm (0.16–0.41 in) long. The flowers are borne singly or in small numbers in cymes in leaf axils, each flower on a pedicel 3.5–8.5 mm (0.14–0.33 in) long. There are four lance-shaped to egg-shaped sepals 2–3.4 mm (0.079–0.134 in) long that fall off as the flower develops, and eight stamens. The ovary is glabrous and the capsule is 10–13 mm (0.39–0.51 in) long and 15–24 mm (0.59–0.94 in) wide with four membranous wings 6–8.5 mm (0.24–0.33 in) wide with dull, black lens-shaped seeds 2.8–3.0 mm (0.11–0.12 in) long.

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Range & habitat

Broad-leaf hop-bush grows in rocky granite or basalt soils in shrubland, near creeks in north-eastern and eastern Victoria, and in the north-east and far south-east of New South Wales.

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