Dodonaea hexandra
Horned Hop-bushDioecious, viscid, spreading shrub to 0.6 m high; branches intricate; branchlets angular and furrowed, usually puberulent. Leaves simple, sessile, linear, 4–14(–35) mm long, 0.5–2 mm wide, channelled below, convex above, acute, margins strongly revolute, entire, glabrous, viscid. Flowers axillary or terminal, solitary, rarely paired; pedicels 1–2 mm long; sepals 3, ovate, 1.5–3.6 mm long, persistent; stamens 6, c. equal in length with sepals; ovary glabrous. Capsule 3-angled, globose or angular-obovate in outline, 5–7 mm long, 5–8 mm wide, glabrous, appendages often absent, or if present, lobe-like at capsule apex, to 0.5 mm wide, crustaceous; seeds subglobose, 1.6–2 mm long, black, shiny; aril white, infundibular Flowers and fruits autumn and winter.
LoM, MuM. Also SA. Known in Victoria from only a few, recent collections in the Sunset Country, where growing in Eucalyptus incrassata and Melaleuca uncinata woodland communities on sand-dunes.
The above description based largely on South Australian material.
Duretto, M.F. (1999). Sapindaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 139–149. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
