Dodonaea hirsuta
{{Short description|Species of shrub}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{Speciesbox
|image = Dodonaea hirsuta.jpg
|image_caption = Near Torrington
|genus = Dodonaea
|species = hirsuta
|authority = (Maiden & Betche) Maiden & Betche{{cite web |title=Dodonaea hirsuta |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/71821 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=6 March 2025}}
|synonyms = Dodonaea peduncularis var. hirsuta Maiden & Betche
}}
Dodonaea hirsuta is a species of plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is an erect, dioecious shrub usually with simple, triangular to narrowly egg-shaped leaves with three to five wedge-shaped teeth, flowers arranged singly with four lance-shaped sepals, and 3- or 4-winged capsules.
Description
Dodonaea hirsuta is an erect, dioecious shrub that typically grows to a height of up to {{cvt|1.5|m}}. Its leaves are simple, triangular to narrowly egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, {{cvt|3–6|mm}} long and {{cvt|3–5|mm}} wide, with three to five hairy wedge-shaped teeth on the end with the edges turned under. The flowers are arranged singly on a pedicel {{cvt|4.5–7|mm}} long with four lance-shaped sepals, {{cvt|1.5–2.6|mm}} long. The stamens have not been seen, but the ovary is densely covered with soft hairs. The fruit is a three- or four-winged, elliptic to spherical capsule {{cvt|11–15.5|mm}} long and {{cvt|12–17|mm}} wide, the wings leathery and {{cvt|2.5–4.5|mm}} wide.{{cite web |last1=West |first1=Judith G. |editor-last1=Busby|editor-first1=John R. |title=Dodonaea hirsuta |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Dodonaea%20hirsuta |publisher=Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra |access-date=3 March 2025}}{{cite web |last1=Wilson |first1=Paul G. |title=Dodonaea hirsuta |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dodonaea~hirsuta|publisher=Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney |access-date=7 March 2025}}{{cite book|last=Morcombe|first=Michael|title=Australia's Wildflowers|date=1991|publisher=The Book Company and Ure Smith Press|location=Sydney|isbn=0725408731|page=28|edition=Réimpr.}}
Taxonomy
This species was first formally described in 1902 by Joseph Maiden and Ernst Betche who gave it the name Dodonaea peduncularis var. hirsuta in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales from specimens collected by [http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/boorman-john.html John Luke Boorman] in 1901.{{cite web |title=Dodonaea peduncularis var. hirsuta |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/483614 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=7 March 2025}}{{cite journal |last1=Maiden |first1=Joseph |last2=Betche |first2=Ernst |title=Notes from the Botanic Gardens,Sydney, No. 8. |journal=Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales |date=1902 |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=57–58|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29995#page/73/mode/1up |access-date=3 March 2025}} In 1913, the same authors raised the variety to species status as Dodonaea hirsuta in a later edition of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.{{cite web |title=Dodonaea hirsuta |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/483118 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=3 March 2025}}
Distribution and habitat
Dodonaea hirsuta grows in forest or heath on granite and sandstone in the Stanthorpe-Wallangarra area of south-east Queensland and the Glen Innes-Grafton areas of northern New South Wales.
Conservation status
Dodonaea hirsuta is listed as "vulnerable" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.{{cite web |title=Species profile—Dodonaea hirsuta |url=https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/details/?id=17374 |publisher=Queensland Government, Department of Education and Science |access-date=7 March 2025}}