Dodonaea baueri Endl.

Dioecious spreading or sometimes prostrate shrub to 1 m high. Leaves simple, obovate, rarely broadly oblong or orbicular, truncate or rounded, irregularly 3–6-toothed, recurved, undulate, unevenly dentate or repand, narrowly cuneate at base; lamina 0.5–1.8 cm long, 0.3–1 cm wide, glabrous to sparsely puberulent; petiole 0.5–1.5 mm long. Flowers solitary or rarely 2 together; pedicels 2–3.2 mm long. Sepals 4, rarely 5, ovate, 1.6–2.8 mm long, persistent. Stamens 8. Ovary glabrous. Capsule 4-angled, rarely 3-or 5-angled, transversely oblong in lateral view, 4–5 mm long, 5.5–10 mm wide, sparsely puberulent; appendages sometimes present, lobe-like or rarely a narrow wing, above middle of capsule only, 0.5–1 mm wide, crustaceous; dehiscence septifragal.

Usually grows on rocky hillsides and exposed sites on mountain ridges as a low understorey shrub, in red-brown sandy loam in mallee scrub.