Dodonaea hispidula

Dodonaea hispidula is a shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 2 m (6 ft 7 in). Its leaves are simple, usually clustered, narrowly elliptic or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, 15–90 mm (0.59–3.54 in) long and 8–34 mm (0.31–1.34 in) wide, on a petiole 2–14 mm (0.079–0.551 in) long. The flowers are arranged singly or in racemes or panicles on the ends of branches or in leaf axils, each flower on a pedicel 2–22 mm (0.079–0.866 in) long. There are five to ten elliptic sepals and 30 to 74 stamens, the ovary oval or heart-shaped, covered with soft hairs with a style 5–25 mm (0.20–0.98 in) long. The fruit is an oval to elliptic capsule with 3 or 4 locules and wings 2–7 mm (0.079–0.276 in) long and 2–14 mm (0.079–0.551 in) wide.

This species of Dodonaea is found in tropical Western Australia, the Northern Territory and Queensland.

Subspecies arida grows on sandy plains among sandstone rocks in the Kimberley region of Western Australia and in the north of the Northern Territory. Subspecies hispidula grows in red soil on plains in the north of Northern Territory and northern Queensland. Subspecies phylloptera grows among sandstone rockes and is common in the Kimberley region and in the north-west of the Northern Territory.