''Dodonaea subglandulifera'', commonly known as Peep Hill hop-bush, is a species of plant in the family

Sapindaceae The Sapindaceae are a family (biology), family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales known as the soapberry family. It contains 138 genera and 1,858 accepted species. Examples include Aesculus, horse chestnut, maples, ackee and lychee. The ...

and is

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to South Australia. It is a small, upright shrub with flowers in small groups that are yellow-greenish to red-maroon.

Description

''Dodonaea subglandulifera'' is an upright shrub high with

imparipinnate Pinnation (also called pennation) is the arrangement of feather-like or multi-divided features arising from both sides of a common axis. Pinnation occurs in biological morphology, in crystals, such as some forms of ice or metal crystals, and in ...

leaves long, leaflets linear, rounded at the apex, mostly entire or sometimes with a few teeth, sticky, glandular on the lower surface, smooth, and on a

petiole Petiole may refer to: *Petiole (botany), the stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem *Petiole (insect anatomy) In entomology, petiole is the technical term for the narrow waist of some hymenopteran insects, especially ants, bees, and ...

long. The flowers are in groups of 2-3 borne in leaf axils on a

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long,

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s oval-shaped, long and falling off early. Flowering occurs from February to August and the fruit is a 3 or 4 winged capsule, elliptic to egg-shaped and with occasional hairs.

Taxonomy

''Dodonaea subglandulifera'' was first formally described in 1984 by Judith Gay West and the description was published in '' Brunonia''.

Distribution and habitat

Peep Hill hop-bush grows in semi-arid locations in south-eastern South Australia.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15547062 subglandulifera Endemic flora of Australia Sapindales of Australia Flora of South Australia