Dodonaea lanceolata

Dodonaea lanceolata is an erect, dioecious or polygamous shrub that typically grows to a height of 1–3 m (3 ft 3 in – 9 ft 10 in). Its leaves are simple, elliptic to lance-shaped, sometimes with the narrower end towards the base, 30–105 mm (1.2–4.1 in) long and 10–30 mm (0.39–1.18 in) wide, sometimes more or less sessile or on a petiole up to 4.5–15 mm (0.18–0.59 in) long. The flowers are borne in panicles on the ends of branches, each flower on a pedicel 5.5–12 mm (0.22–0.47 in) long with four lance-shaped to egg-shaped sepals 1.4–2.5 mm (0.055–0.098 in) long. There are usually eight stamens and the ovary is glabrous. Flowering occurs from February to October and the fruit is three-winged capsule, 13–19 mm (0.51–0.75 in) long and 14–19 mm (0.55–0.75 in) wide, the membranous wings 4.5–5.5 mm (0.18–0.22 in) wide.^[2][4]

Dodonaea lanceolata was first formally described in 1859 by Ferdinand von Mueller in his Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from specimens collected in Arnhem Land.^[5][6] The specific epithet (lanceolata) means 'lanceolate'.^[7]

In 1984, Judith Gay West describe two varieties of D. lanceolata in the journal Brunonia and the names are accepted by the Australian Plant Census:

• Dodonaea lanceolata F.Muell. var. lanceolata^[8] has elliptic leaves, tapering at each end, on a petiole usually 4.5–15 mm (0.18–0.59 in) long.^[9]
• Dodonaea lanceolata var. subsessilifolia J.G.West^[10] has more or less sessile, oblong to lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base.^[11]