Dodonaea baueri
| Dodonaea baueri | |
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| In Cape Blanche Conservation Park | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Sapindaceae |
| Genus: | Dodonaea |
| Species: | D. baueri
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| Binomial name | |
| Dodonaea baueri | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Dodonaea deflexa F.Muell. | |
Dodonaea baueri, commonly known as crinkled hop-bush,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a dioecious, spreading, sometimes prostrate shrub with simple leaves, single or paired flowers and capsules usually with four wings.
Description
[edit]Dodonaea baueri is a dioecious, spreading or sometimes prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in). Its leaves are simple, broadly oblong to round, 5–18 mm (0.20–0.71 in) long and 3–10 mm (0.12–0.39 in) wide on a petiole 0.5–1.5 mm (0.020–0.059 in) long. The flowers are borne singly, rarely in pairs on a pedicel 2.0–3.2 mm (0.079–0.126 in) long, usually with four egg-shaped sepals 1.6–2.8 mm (0.063–0.110 in) long, eight stamens and a glabrous ovary. The fruit is usually a four-angled capsule, 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long, 5.5–10 mm (0.22–0.39 in) wide.[3][2]
Taxonomy and naming
[edit]Dodonaea baueri was first formally described in 1837 by Stephan Endlicher in the Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus Liber Baro de Hügel from specimens collected on Salt Island by Ferdinand Bauer.[4][5]
Distribution and habitat
[edit]This species of Dodonaea grows in mallee scrub as an understorey shrub, on rocky hillsides and exposed places on mountain ridges in sandy loam.[2][3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Dodonaea baueri". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ a b c "Dodonaea baueri". Seeds of South Australia. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ a b West, Judith Gay. "Dodonaea baueri". Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ "Dodonaea baueri". Australian Plant Name Index. Retrieved 3 January 2025.
- ^ Endlicher, Stephan (1837). Endlicher, Stephan; Fenzl, Eduard; Bentham, George; Schott, Heinrich W. (eds.). Enumeratio plantarum quas in Novae Hollandiae ora austro-occidentali ad fluvium Cygnorum et in Sinu Regis Georgii collegit Carolus liber baro de Hügel. New York: Apud FR. Beck. p. 13. Retrieved 3 January 2025.