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Family: Sapindaceae
Dodonaea intricata

Citation: J.G. West, Brunonia 7:72 (1984).

Synonymy: Dodonaea sp. A

Common name: None

Description:
Dioecious spreading shrub, 0.2-1 m high; leaves simple, petiolate, oblong or rarely oblanceolate or narrow-elliptic, truncate-emarginate or sometimes obtuse or irregularly 2- or 3-toothed at the apex, 0.7-1.7 x 0.3-0.6 cm, viscous, with raised glands, glabrous to puberulent, margin entire, unevenly sinuate or with very small regular teeth or lobes; petiole 1-3.5 mm long.

Flowers solitary or rarely 2 together, axillary; pedicels 2.5-5 mm long; sepals 4, ovate to broad-oblong, 1.5-2.5 mm long, caducous; stamens 8; ovary glabrous.

Capsule 4-winged, broad- to transverse-elliptic in lateral view, 10-13 x 9-14 mm, usually glabrous, sometimes sparsely pubescent, septifragally dehiscent, wings 2-4 mm broad, extending from the base to the apex of the capsule.

image of FSA2_Dodonaea_int.jpg Dodonaea intricata leaf.
Image source: fig 422d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
image of FSA2_Dodonaea_int2.jpg Dodonaea intricata capsule.
Image source: fig 423d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: West (1984) Brunonia 7:figs 40, 41.

Distribution:  Grows on granite hills and rocky outcrops in association with Melaleuca uncinata, M. rhaphiophylla, M. lanceolata and Triodia irritans.

S.Aust.: GT, EP.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: Feb. — March.


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