Fruiting bodies and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, ACT

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photo Murray Fagg, Mt Hope trig, Vic

Common Name

Lobed-leaf Hopbush, Lobed Hopbush

Family

Sapindaceae

Notes

Shrub to 3m tall. Leaves alternating up the stems, 1.5-5cm long, 0.5-5mm wide, linear to flat, hairless to hairy, sticky or shiny, glandular, edges lobed or dissected, rarely entire, tips blunt. Male and female flowers on separate plants. Flowers often small (less than 3mm across), with 0 petals, solitary or 2-3 together on short stalks arising from the bases of the leaves. Fruiting body with 3 (rarely 4) wings. Protected NSW.

Description and photo, and line drawing of leaf (Fig. 54f) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales page 471

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dodonaea~lobulata