Dodonaea polyandra
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| Dodonaea polyandra | |
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Sapindaceae |
| Genus: | Dodonaea |
| Species: | D. polyandra |
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| Dodonaea polyandra | |
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Dodonaea polyandra is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is native to Queensland, Australia and New Guinea. It is a spreading, dioecious shrub or tree with simple elliptic leaves, flowers arranged in panicles on the ends of branches, the flowers usually with four sepals and 11 to 14 stamens, and capsules usually with two wings.
Dodonaea polyandra is a spreading dioecious shrub or tree that typically grows to a height of up to 8 m (26 ft). Its leaves are simple, elliptic, 55–105 mm (2.2–4.1 in) long, 1.6–4.25 mm (0.063–0.167 in) long and glabrous on a petiole 3–10 mm (0.12–0.39 in) long. The flowers are arranged in panicles on the ends of branches, each flower on a pedicel 4.5–14 mm (0.18–0.55 in) long, usually with linear sepals, 2.5–3.0 mm (0.098–0.118 in) long that fall off as the flower develops, and 11 to 14 stamens. The ovary is glabrous. The fruit is a two-winged, broadly oblong capsule 16–28 mm (0.63–1.10 in) long and 15–30 mm (0.59–1.18 in) wide and glabrous with membranous wings 6–9 mm (0.24–0.35 in) wide.[2]
Taxonomy
Dodonaea polyandra was first formally described in 1945 by Elmer Drew Merrill and Lily May Perry the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum.[3] The specific epithet (polyandra) means 'many-stamens'.[4]