Dodonaea humilis
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|authority = Endl.{{cite web |title=Dodonaea humilis |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/71887 |publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=15 March 2025}}
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Dodonaea humilis, commonly known as limestone hop-bush,{{cite web |title=Dodonaea humilis |url=https://spapps.environment.sa.gov.au/SeedsOfSA/speciesinformation.html?rid=1505 |publisher=Seeds of South Australia |access-date=15 March 2025}} is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to southern South Australia. It is a dioecious, spreading shrub with imparipinnate leaves with two to fourteen mostly glabrous leaflets, flowers arranged singly or in cymes, and oblong capsules with four lobes.
Description
Dodonaea humilis is a dioecious, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height of up to {{cvt|1|m}}. Its leaves are imparipinnate, {{cvt|9–26|mm}} long with two to fourteen glabrous, triangular or egg-shaped leaflets with the narrower end towards the base, {{cvt|3–8|mm}} long and {{cvt|2–7|mm}} wide with three to seven teeth near the tip. The petiole is {{cvt|1–4|mm}} long. The flowers are arranged singly or in cymes on the ends of branches, each flower on a pedicel {{cvt|1.5–4|mm}} long. There are four lance-shaped or egg-shaped sepals {{cvt|1.8–2.8|mm}} long and eight stamens, the ovary glabrous. The fruit is an oblong capsule {{cvt|4.5–7|mm}} long, {{cvt|4.5–6|mm}} wide with four lobes and densely covered with glandular hairs.{{cite web |last1=West |first1=John G. |title=Dodonaea humilis |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Dodonaea%20humilis |publisher=Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. |access-date=15 March 2025}}
Taxonomy
Dodonaea humilis was first formally described in 1835 by Stephan Endlicher in his Atakta Botanika.{{cite web |title=Dodonaea humilis |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/483206 |publisher=Australian Plant Name Index |access-date=15 March 2025}} The specific epithet (humilis) means 'low-growing'.{{cite book |last1=Stearn |first1=William T. |title=Botanical Latin |date=1992 |publisher=Timber Press |location=Portland, Oregon |page=427}}
Distribution and habitat
This species of Dodonaea grows in mallee scrub on limestone or chalky soils on the Eyre, Yorke and Fleurieu Peninsulas in southern South Australia.
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Category:Sapindales of Australia
Category:Plants described in 1835