Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima
Hop Bush at Undefined Area
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| Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | BettyDonWood | 19 Aug 2015 | |
| Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima | KenT | 17 Aug 2015 | |
| Unverified | SilkeSma | 17 Aug 2015 |
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5 comments
19 Aug 2015
Could you get a closeup of the leaves.I cannot tell even if it is Dodonaea without that.
20 Aug 2015
Hi Betty, not sure what exactly you are looking for in the leaves but here are a few more close ups. I hope they show enough detail.
20 Aug 2015
It probably is a Dodonaea but not Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima, which has leaves 1-6 mm wide. I suspect this is a wide-leaved form of Dodonaea viscosa subsp. spatulata (leaves in the PlantNET key 6-16 mm wide). To be definite one really needs mature seed cases.
20 Aug 2015
My initial guess at genus was based on the apetalous male flowers I know of no other plants around the ACT with flowers that look like those in the image. My understanding of D. viscosa is that it has separate male and female plants, to have to rely on seed capsules when identifying male plants seems problematic as you could never identify them. As far as leaf width goes, if the scale in the later images is in cm & mm then the width appears <6mm. If the scale is in inches then width is >6mm.
20 Aug 2015
Something went wrong with my maths when I was calculating leaf width. The scale is definitely in cm. (Scales in inches are normally divided into eighths). I now make the width about 3 mm and the l:w ratio about 11.5
Location information
- Coordinates 149.164449-35.269301
- Maps Mount Ainslie
Sighting information
- 4 - 15 Abundance
- 17 Aug 2015 10:11 AM Recorded on
- SilkeSma Recorded by
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- SilkeSma Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Other Shrubs Plants
Species information
- Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima Scientific name
- Hop Bush Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1074m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Dodonaea attenuata
Seasonal activity
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In flower
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