Dodonaea platyptera
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| Dodonaea platyptera | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Sapindaceae |
| Genus: | Dodonaea |
| Species: | D. platyptera |
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| Dodonaea platyptera | |
Dodonaea platyptera is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It is an erect dioecious shrub or small tree with hairy branches, simple, narrowly elliptic to elliptic leaves with a prominent midrib, flowers arranged in panicles or cymes, the flowers with four sepals and usually eight stamens, and capsules with three or four leathery wings.
Dodonaea platyptera is a spreading, usually dioecious shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of up to 5 m (16 ft). Its leaves are simple, usually clustered near the ends of branches, narrowly elliptic to elliptic, petiolate, 39–97 mm (1.5–3.8 in) long and 9–32 mm (0.35–1.26 in) wide with a prominent mid-rib. The flowers are arranged in panicles or cymes, each flower on a pedicel usually 5.5–9 mm (0.22–0.35 in) long, with four narrowly oblong to narrowly egg-shaped to elliptic sepals, 1.5–2.5 mm (0.059–0.098 in) long but that fall off as the flowers develop, and usually eight stamens. The ovary is hairy and the fruit is a three- or four-winged capsule, 7–11 mm (0.28–0.43 in) long and 21–26 mm (0.83–1.02 in) wide with leathery wings 7–11 mm (0.28–0.43 in) wide.[2][3]
Taxonomy
Dodonaea platyptera was first formally described in 1857 by Ferdinand von Mueller in Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany.[4][5] The specific epithet (platyptera) means 'broad-winged'.[6]