About Dodonaea lobulata F.Muell.
Dodonaea lobulata is a spreading, dioecious shrub that usually reaches a height of 0.5 to 3 metres (1 foot 8 inches to 9 feet 10 inches). Its leaves are stalkless, and are either irregularly pinnatifid (mostly 15 to 55 millimetres long and 1 to 2.5 millimetres wide) or irregularly lobed, with two to twelve elliptic to linear lobes located near the leaf tip. Flowers grow in pairs or groups of three, with each flower attached to a 3 to 6.5 millimetre long pedicel. This species has three or four egg-shaped sepals that measure 1.6 to 2.7 millimetres long, and the sepals drop off as the flowers mature. There are six to eight stamens, and the ovary is hairless. Flowering takes place from May to July. The fruit is a hairless, elliptic to broadly egg-shaped capsule that is usually three-winged, measuring 10.5 to 15 millimetres long and 14 to 21 millimetres wide. The capsule wings are leathery to membranous and 4 to 7 millimetres wide. Common name bead hopbush, this plant grows in arid regions of southern Australia. Its range covers areas between Leonora and Cape Arid National Park in Western Australia, southern South Australia, and western New South Wales between Broken Hill and Cobar. It does not grow on the Nullarbor Plain.
