Citation: F. Muell., J. Trans. Vict. Inst. 1:117 (1855).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Horned hop-bush.

Description:
Dioecious spreading shrub to 0.6 m high; leaves simple, sessile, linear, channelled below, convex above, acute, 0.6-1.5, rarely to 3.5 x 0.1-0.2 cm, viscous, with raised glands, glabrous, margin entire and strongly revolute.

Flowers solitary or rarely 2 together, axillary or terminal; pedicels 1-1.5 mm long; sepals 3, ovate, 1.5-3.6 mm long, persistent; stamens 6; ovary glabrous.

Capsule 3-angled, globose or angular-obovate in lateral view, 5-7 x 5-8 mm, glabrous, septifragally dehiscent, appendages often absent or lobe-like and at the apex only, to 0.5 mm broad.

	Dodonaea hexandra leaf.
Image source: fig 422c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

	Dodonaea hexandra capsule.
Image source: fig 423c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: West (1984) Brunonia 7:fig. 84.

Distribution:  Grows in mallee scrub communities dominated by tree species such as Eucalyptus incrassata, E. porosa, E. socialis and E. anceps and commonly in malice broombush associations; often in alkaline soils and in sandy loams overlying limestone. S.Aust.: EP, NL, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   ?W.Aust. Conservation status: native Flowering time: May — July.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: This species was apparently collected in W.Aust. on the Elder Scientific Expedition in 1891. It has never been recollected in that State.

Taxonomic notes: Putative hybrids have been found in two areas of the Murray mallee where D. hexandra and D. humills occur together. The hybrid individuals show intermediate morphology for several characters.

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