Dodonaea viscosa
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Description
Shrub or treelet, up to 8 m high, dbh up to 20 cm;
Leaves elliptic to obovate, (including the petiole) (5-)9-15 by (1.5-)2.5-4 cm, index 3-4.5, thin-pergamentaceous to papyraceous;
Inflorescences 3-3.5 cm long, laxly and widely branched, with 12-15 flowers;
Flowers bisexual.
Sepals (3 or) 4, elliptic, c. 2.75 by 1.5-1.75 mm, outside sometimes with a few paired hairs, the margin sparsely ciliate mainly towards the apex, glabrous inside;
Stamens 5-7, scars distinct in fruit;
Fruits inflated, reniform-cordate, 8-12 by 11-16 mm, membranous, yellowish to light brown, very sparsely glandular, otherwise glabrous;
Notes
1. In literature, the distinction between D, viscosa and D. angustifolia is hardly ever made, even though, in Malesia at least, one was aware of the existence of a coastal form, regarded here as true D. viscosa, and a montane form, D. angustifolia.
2. Rumphius' Caryophyllaster litoreus is probably also such a mixture: the name and the habitat point to D. viscosa, the description and the plate, however, seem to represent D. angustifolia.
2. Rumphius' Caryophyllaster litoreus is probably also such a mixture: the name and the habitat point to D. viscosa, the description and the plate, however, seem to represent D. angustifolia.
Citation
Backer & Bakh. f. 1965: p. 141. – In: Fl. Java: beach form only
Burm. f. 1768: Fl. Indica: 36
Yap 1989 – In: Tree Fl. Malaya: 440
Merr. 1923 – In: Enum. Philipp. Flow. Pl.: 514
Adelb. 1948 – In: Blumea: 325
Koord. & Valeton 1903 – In: Bijdr. Booms. Java: 227
Radlk. 1933 – In: Engl., Pflanzenr. 98: 1363
Ridley 1922 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 510
Jungh. 1845 – In: Nat. Geneesk. Arch. Ned. Indie: 37
Koord. 1912 – In: Exk. Fl. Java: 543
Corner 1940: Wayside Trees: 586: f. 214
Meyer Drees 1951 – In: Commun. Forest Res. Inst.: 108
West 1985: p. 120. – In: Fl. Austral.: f. 28a-d, map 148-154
Leenh. 1983 – In: Blumea: 271