Dodonaea tepperi
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| Dodonaea tepperi | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Sapindaceae |
| Genus: | Dodonaea |
| Species: | D. tepperi |
| Binomial name | |
| Dodonaea tepperi | |
Dodonaea tepperi is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to South Australia. It is a spreading shrub with simple linear, oblong or narrowly elliptic leaves with the edges rolled under, flowers arranged singly with 3 or 4 egg-shaped sepals, 6 to 8 stamens and capsules with three or four crust-like wings.
Dodonaea tepperi is a spreading dioecious or rarely polygamodioecious shrub that typically grows to a height of up to 60 cm (24 in). Its leaves are simple, linear, oblong or narrowly elliptic, 8–14 mm (0.31–0.55 in) long, 1–3 mm (0.039–0.118 in) wide and glabrous, with the edges rolled under. The flowers are borne singly on a pedicel 1–2.6 mm (0.039–0.102 in) long, with 3 or 4 egg-shaped sepals 1.8–3.3 mm (0.071–0.130 in) long, 6 to 8 stamens, and a glabrous ovary. The fruit is a 3- or 4-winged, more or less spherical or broadly egg-shaped capsule 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long and 5.0–5.5 mm (0.20–0.22 in) wide, the wings often absent or lobe-like, up to 0.5 mm (0.020 in) wide and crust-like.[2]