Dodonaea polyandra Merr. & L.M.Perry

Tree or shrub, dioecious, up to 12 m high; bark smooth to rather rough, grey-brown to dark reddish brown, peeling off in strips; inner bark pale brown to red; wood white to cream. Indumentum glabrous. Leaves elliptic to elliptic-obovate, (including the petiole) 6.5-12 by 1.8-4 cm, index 2.5-4, stiff pergamentaceous; apex not or only slightly acuminate, the very apex rounded or sometimes retuse; midrib slightly raised above; nerves 5-12.5 mm apart, widely spreading to erecto-patent, distinctly looped and joined near the margin; intersecondary nerves often present, fairly strong; reticulations very coarse, invisible above, indistinct below. Inflorescences 2-4 cm long, laxly and widely branched, with 12-15 flowers; pedicels in fruit up to 1.75 cm long. Sepals (4 or) 5, in male flowers ovate, c. 2.75 by 1.5 mm, in female flowers elliptic, c. 3.5 by 1 mm, both outside glandular; scar under the fruit annular, not lobed. Stamens 12-15; filaments c. 0.2 mm long; anthers attached on the back just above the base, c. 3 mm long; female flowers without staminodes. Pistil 3-locular; ovary triangular-ellipsoid, c. 2 mm high; style cylindrical, c. 8 mm long; stigma minutely lobed. Fruits flattened, ellipsoid, 14-15 by 8-11 mm, pergamen-taceous, sparsely conspicuously glandular; wings at the middle of the fruit 4.5-7.5 mm wide, thin pergamentaceous; greenish sometimes with a purple tinge, the body sometimes brown.

On fringes of rainforest or in open eucalypt or Callitris woodland, usually in sandy or gravelly soil and often near a river or creek.