Dodonaea humifusa
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| Dodonaea humifusa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Sapindaceae |
| Genus: | Dodonaea |
| Species: | D. humifusa |
| Binomial name | |
| Dodonaea humifusa | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Dodonaea humifusa Miq. var. humifusa | |
Dodonaea humifusa is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a prostrate shrub with simple, sessile, egg-shaped or lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, single flowers usually with eight stamens, and four-angled capsules.
Dodonaea humifusa is usually a dioecious prostrate shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 1 m (3 ft 3 in). Its leaves are simple, sessile, egg-shaped to lance shaped with the narrower end towards the base, mostly 10–25 mm (0.39–0.98 in) long and 2–8 mm (0.079–0.315 in) wide. The flowers are borne singly on a pedicel 5–22 mm (0.20–0.87 in) long, with four or five egg-shaped sepals 2.3–5 mm (0.091–0.197 in) long that fall off as the flowers open. Each flower has eight to nine stamens and an ovary that is glabrous or covered with fine, soft hairs. The fruit is a four-angled capsule, 4.0–8.5 mm (0.16–0.33 in) long, 4.0–8 mm (0.16–0.31 in) wide, with appendages that are sometimes absent or lobe-like.[2][3]