Dodonaea platyptera

Dodonaea platyptera is a spreading, usually dioecious shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of up to 5 m (16 ft). Its leaves are simple, usually clustered near the ends of branches, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, petiolate, 39–97 mm (1.5–3.8 in) long and 9–32 mm (0.35–1.26 in) wide with a prominent mid-rib. The flowers are arranged in panicles or cymes, each flower on a pedicel usually 5.5–9 mm (0.22–0.35 in) long, with four narrowly oblong to narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic sepals, 1.5–2.5 mm (0.059–0.098 in) long but that fall off as the flowers develop, and usually eight stamens. The ovary is hairy and the fruit is a three- or four-winged capsule, 7–11 mm (0.28–0.43 in) long and 21–26 mm (0.83–1.02 in) wide with leathery wings 7–11 mm (0.28–0.43 in) wide.

This species of Dodonaea grows in coastal areas, often near sand dunes or on the edges of rainforest, and sometimes further inland in open forest or in dune thickets in sandy soil in the Kimberley region of Western Australia, the northern parts of the Northern Territory and in northern Queensland in the north of the Northern Territory and north-eastern Queensland.