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Dodonaea is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
s in the soapberry
Sapindus

Sapindus is a genus of about five to twelve species of shrubs and small trees in the maple family, Sapindaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions in both the Old World and New World....
 family, Sapindaceae
Sapindaceae

Sapindaceae, also known as the soapberry family, is a family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales. There are about 140-150 genera with 1400-2000 species, including maple, Aesculus and lychee....
, with a cosmopolitan distribution
Cosmopolitan distribution

In biogeography, a biological category of living things is said to have cosmopolitan distribution if this category can be found almost anywhere around the world....
 in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
, the Americas
Americas

The Americas are the region of the Western hemisphere that consists of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions....
, southern Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
 and Australasia
Australasia

Australasia is a region of Oceania: New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes ....
. By far the highest species diversity is in Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
.

They are shrub
Shrub

A shrub or bush is a horticulture rather than strictly Botany category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall....
s and small tree
TREE

TREE was a Boston hardcore punk band formed in the summer of 1990. They were active in the Boston music scene until disbanding in 2002....
s growing to tall. The leaves
Leaf

In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant Organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues....
 are alternate, simple or pinnate. The flower
Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
s are produced in short raceme
Raceme

A raceme is a type of inflorescence that is unbranched and indeterminate growth and bears pedicellate flowers — flowers having short floral stalks called Pedicel s — along the axis....
s. The fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
 is a capsule
Capsule (fruit)

In botany a capsule is a type of simple, dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants. A capsule is a dehiscent structure composed of two or more carpels, that, at maturity, split apart to release the seeds within....
, often with two or three wings.

The genus is named after Rembert Dodoens
Rembert Dodoens

Rembert Dodoens was a Flemings physician and botanist, also known under his Latinisation name Rembertus Dodonaeus.In 1530 he started his studies of medicine, cosmography and geography at the University of Leuven, where he graduated in 1535....
, also known as Rembertus Dodonaeus.

Species






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Dodonaea is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
s in the soapberry
Sapindus

Sapindus is a genus of about five to twelve species of shrubs and small trees in the maple family, Sapindaceae, native to warm temperate to tropical regions in both the Old World and New World....
 family, Sapindaceae
Sapindaceae

Sapindaceae, also known as the soapberry family, is a family of flowering plants in the order Sapindales. There are about 140-150 genera with 1400-2000 species, including maple, Aesculus and lychee....
, with a cosmopolitan distribution
Cosmopolitan distribution

In biogeography, a biological category of living things is said to have cosmopolitan distribution if this category can be found almost anywhere around the world....
 in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa
Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
, the Americas
Americas

The Americas are the region of the Western hemisphere that consists of the continents of North America and South America with their associated islands and regions....
, southern Asia
Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent. It covers 8.6% of the Earth's total surface area and, with over 4 billion people, it contains more than 60% of the world's current human population....
 and Australasia
Australasia

Australasia is a region of Oceania: New Zealand, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean. The term was coined by Charles de Brosses in Histoire des navigations aux terres australes ....
. By far the highest species diversity is in Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
.

They are shrub
Shrub

A shrub or bush is a horticulture rather than strictly Botany category of woody plant, distinguished from a tree by its multiple stems and lower height, usually less than 5-6 m tall....
s and small tree
TREE

TREE was a Boston hardcore punk band formed in the summer of 1990. They were active in the Boston music scene until disbanding in 2002....
s growing to tall. The leaves
Leaf

In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant Organ specialized for photosynthesis. For this purpose, a leaf is typically flat and thin, to expose the cells containing chloroplast to light over a broad area, and to allow light to penetrate fully into the tissues....
 are alternate, simple or pinnate. The flower
Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
s are produced in short raceme
Raceme

A raceme is a type of inflorescence that is unbranched and indeterminate growth and bears pedicellate flowers — flowers having short floral stalks called Pedicel s — along the axis....
s. The fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
 is a capsule
Capsule (fruit)

In botany a capsule is a type of simple, dry fruit produced by many species of flowering plants. A capsule is a dehiscent structure composed of two or more carpels, that, at maturity, split apart to release the seeds within....
, often with two or three wings.

The genus is named after Rembert Dodoens
Rembert Dodoens

Rembert Dodoens was a Flemings physician and botanist, also known under his Latinisation name Rembertus Dodonaeus.In 1530 he started his studies of medicine, cosmography and geography at the University of Leuven, where he graduated in 1535....
, also known as Rembertus Dodonaeus.

Species
  • Dodonaea adenophora Miq.
  • Dodonaea amblyophylla Diels
  • Dodonaea angustifolia
    Dodonaea angustifolia

    The Sand olive is a slender shrub or small tree that occurs naturally from southern Africa to Arabia, as well as in Australia and New Zealand. The seed capsules are three-winged and are dispersed by wind....
     L.f.
  • Dodonaea angustissima DC.
  • Dodonaea aptera
    Dodonaea aptera

    Dodonaea aptera, commonly known as Coast Hop-bush, is a species of coastal shrub endemic to Western Australia....
     Miq.
  • Dodonaea attenuata A.Cunn.
  • Dodonaea baueri Endl.
  • Dodonaea biloba J.G.West
  • Dodonaea boroniifolia G.Don
  • Dodonaea bursariifolia F.Muell.
  • Dodonaea caespitosa Diels
  • Dodonaea camfieldii Maiden & Betche
  • Dodonaea ceratocarpa Endl.
  • Dodonaea concinna Benth.
  • Dodonaea coriacea (Ewart & O.B.Davies) McGill.
  • Dodonaea cuneata Sm.
  • Dodonaea divaricata Benth.
  • Dodonaea ericifolia G.Don
  • Dodonaea ericoides Miq.
  • Dodonaea falcata J.G.West
  • Dodonaea filifolia Hook.
  • Dodonaea filiformis Link
  • Dodonaea glandulosa J.G.West
  • Dodonaea hackettiana W.Fitzg.
  • Dodonaea heteromorpha J.G.West
  • Dodonaea hexandra F.Muell.
  • Dodonaea hirsuta Maiden & Betche
  • Dodonaea humifusa Miq.
  • Dodonaea humilis Endl.
  • Dodonaea inaequifolia Turcz.
  • Dodonaea intricata J.G.West
  • Dodonaea lanceolata F.Muell.
  • Dodonaea larreoides Turcz.
  • Dodonaea lobulata F.Muell.
  • Dodonaea macrossanii F.Muell. & Scort.
  • Dodonaea madagascariensis Radlk.
  • Dodonaea megazyga F.Muell.
  • Dodonaea microzyga F.Muell.
  • Dodonaea multijuga G.Don.
  • Dodonaea oxyptera F.Muell.
  • Dodonaea pachyneura F.Muell.
  • Dodonaea peduncularis Lindl.
  • Dodonaea petiolaris F.Muell.
  • Dodonaea physocarpa F.Muell.
  • Dodonaea pinifolia Miq.
  • Dodonaea pinnata Sm.
  • Dodonaea platyptera F.Muell.
  • Dodonaea polyandra Merr. & L.M.Perry
  • Dodonaea polyzyga F.Muell.
  • Dodonaea procumbens F.Muell.
  • Dodonaea ptarmicifolia Turcz.
  • Dodonaea rhombifolia N.A.Wakef.
  • Dodonaea rigida J.G.West
  • Dodonaea rupicola C.T.White
  • Dodonaea serratifolia McGill.
  • Dodonaea sinuolata J.G.West
  • Dodonaea spatulata Sm.
  • Dodonaea stenophylla F.Muell.
  • Dodonaea stenozyga F.Muell.
  • Dodonaea subglandulifera J.G.West
  • Dodonaea tenuifolia Lindl.
  • Dodonaea tepperi F.Muell. ex Tepper
  • Dodonaea triangularis Lindl.
  • Dodonaea trifida F.Muell.
  • Dodonaea triquetra J.C.Wendl.
  • Dodonaea truncatiales F.Muell.
  • Dodonaea uncinata J.G.West
  • Dodonaea vestita Hook.
  • Dodonaea viscosa
    Dodonaea viscosa

    Dodonaea viscosa is a species of flowering plant in the Sapindus family, Sapindaceae, that has a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia and Australasia....
     Jacq.
    Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin

    Nikolaus Joseph Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Nikolaus von Jacquin. was a Netherlands scientist who studied medicine, chemistry and botany....


    • Dodonaea species are used as food plants by the larva
    Larva

    A larva is a young form of animal with indirect developmental biology, going through or undergoing metamorphosis .The larva can look completely different from the adult form, for example, a caterpillar differs from a butterfly....
    e of some Lepidoptera
    Lepidoptera

    Lepidoptera is an order of insect that includes moths and butterfly. It is one of the most speciose orders in the class Insecta, encompassing moths and the three superfamilies of butterfly, skipper , and Hedylidae....
     species including Aenetus eximia
    Aenetus

    Aenetus is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae. There are 24 described species found in Indonesia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Australia and New Zealand....
     and Aenetus ligniveren
    Aenetus

    Aenetus is a genus of moths of the family Hepialidae. There are 24 described species found in Indonesia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Australia and New Zealand....
    .