{{Short description|Species of shrub}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2025}} {{Speciesbox |image = Dodonaea triquetra Tasney.jpg |image_caption = Near White Patch on Bribie Island |taxon = Dodonaea triquetra |authority = J.C.Wendl.<ref name="APC">{{cite web |title=''Dodonaea triquetra'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/72633|publisher=Australian Plant Census |access-date=23 July 2025}}</ref> }} '''''Dodonaea triquetra''''', commonly known as '''large-leaf hop-bush''',<ref name="RBGS">{{cite web |title=''Dodonaea triquetra'' |url=https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Dodonaea~triquetra |publisher=Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney |access-date=23 July 2025}}</ref> is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is usually a dioecious shrub with simple elliptic, sometimes lance-shaped or egg-shaped leaves, flowers in panicles on the ends of branches, each flower usually with four sepals, eight stamens, and a three-winged capsule.
==Description== ''Dodonaea triquetra'' is a dioecious or rarely polygamodioecious shrub that typically grows to a height of up to {{cvt|3|m}}. It has simple, elliptic, sometimes lance-shaped or egg-shaped leaves {{cvt|45–120|mm}} long, {{cvt|10–47|mm}} wide and glabrous on a petiole {{cvt|2–7|mm}} long. The flowers are arranged in panicles on the ends of branches, each flower with four, rarely five broadly triangular sepals but that fall off as the flower develops, usually eight, rarely ten stamens, and a glabrous ovary. Flowering mostly occurs in summer and the seed is lens-shaped, {{cvt|2.5–2.7|mm}} long.<ref name="RBGS" /><ref name="FoA">{{cite web |last1=West |first1=Judith G. |title=''Dodonaea triquetra'' |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Dodonaea%20triquetra |publisher=Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water: Canberra. |access-date=23 July 2025}}</ref><ref name="RBGV">{{cite web |last1=Duretto |first1=Marco F. |last2=Ohlsen |first2=Daniel |title=''Dodonaea triquetra'' |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/35416326-3d5b-49c0-9923-82747e7837b9 |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |access-date=23 July 2025}}</ref>
==Taxonomy== ''Dodonaea triquetra'' was first formally described in 1798 by Johann Christoph Wendland in his ''Botanische Beobachtungen: nebst einigen neuen Gattungen und Arten''.<ref name=APNI>{{cite web|title=''Dodonaea triquetra''|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/rest/instance/apni/484327 |publisher=APNI|access-date=23 July 2025}}</ref><ref name="Wendl.">{{cite book |last1=Wendland |first1=Johann C. |title=Botanische Beobachtungen : nebst einigen neuen Gattungen und Arten |date=1798 |publisher=Bey den Gebrüdern Hahn |location=Hanover |page=44 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/186583#page/52/mode/1up |access-date=23 July 2025}}</ref>
==Distribution and habitat== Large-leaf hop-bush grows in wet or dry forest, usually in sand or on sandstone on the east coast of Australia from north of Cooktown in north Queensland through near-coastal areas, the slopes and tablelands of New South Wales,<ref name="RBGS" /> to near Bairnsdale in eastern Victoria.<ref name="FoA" /><ref name="RBGV" />
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triquetra Category:Flora of New South Wales Category:Flora of Queensland Category:Flora of Victoria (state) Category:Sapindales of Australia