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.
| Dodonaea intricata leaf.
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Image source: fig 422d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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| Dodonaea intricata capsule.
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Image source: fig 423d in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
West (1984) Brunonia 7:figs 40, 41.
Distribution:
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Grows on granite hills and rocky outcrops in association with Melaleuca uncinata, M. rhaphiophylla, M. lanceolata and Triodia irritans.
S.Aust.: GT, EP.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Feb. — March.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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