Dodonaea filifolia Hook.

Dioecious erect shrub or small tree to 5 m high. Leaves simple, sessile, linear-filiform, grooved or channelled or rarely flat above, convex below, obtuse, entire, not constricted at base, 5.5–10.5 cm long, rarely shorter, 0.1 cm wide, glabrous. Flowers in 5-or 6-flowered terminal cymes; pedicels 3.3–7.5 mm long. Sepals 4, lanceolate, 1.2–1.5 mm long, caducous. Stamens 8. Ovary glabrous or sometimes sparsely pubescent. Capsule 4-winged, rarely 3-winged, broadly elliptic in lateral view, 9.5–12.5 mm long, 11.5–13 mm wide, glabrous; wings 2.5–4 mm wide, membranous, sometimes coriaceous; dehiscence septifragal.

Grows in low open eucalypt forest on sandstone plateaus and hills and also in sandy soil among sandstone rocks.