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Summary
Dodonaea triangularis, commonly known as triangle-leaved hopbush, is a species of flowering plant in the family Sapindaceae and is endemic to eastern Australia. It is a dioecious shrub with simple, more or less sessile leaves with three teeth or lobes at the end, flowers in groups of three to six axillary cymes, each flower with four sepals, six to eight stamens, and three- or four-angled capsule with lobe-like appendages.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Dodonaea triangularis", CC BY-SA 4.0.
About the genus · Dodonaea
Dodonaea, commonly known as hop-bushes, is a genus of about 70 species of flowering plants in the soapberry family, Sapindaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia and Australasia, but 59 species are endemic to Australia.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Dodonaea", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Seasons
The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (512 mm of 699 mm) falls in October to March and May, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 21.6 °C against a yearly mean of 18.6 °C). Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: April to September and November.
Rain
699 mm in the median year at the habitat, 512 mm of it October to March and May. Wettest month December at 97 mm, driest month August at 32 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 620 mm to 915 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 699 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 699 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, southern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.
Light
Open sky over the habitat: 20 to 44 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 16, the highest 90th-percentile month 46).
Warmth and air
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is 0.8 °C, the absolute minimum -2.6 °C, 76 frost nights in 44 years, 1.7 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 40.4 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 6.6 °C in July (across the grid cells of the range 4.5 °C to 9.4 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 29.9 °C in January (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: 0.8 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).
Relative humidity at the habitat: 53 to 58% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected +10 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.
Climate across the habitat
Habitat months, southern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 17 °C in Jul to 30 °C in Jan; mean nightly low from 7 °C in Jul to 19 °C in Jan and Feb. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low. 699 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Dec. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 531 habitat cells. Over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER) the absolute minimum was -2.6 °C and the 99th-percentile day 40.4 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.
Figures by month
| Figure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 30 / 28–32 | 29 / 27–31 | 27 / 25–30 | 25 / 21–26 | 21 / 18–23 | 18 / 14–20 | 17 / 14–20 | 19 / 15–22 | 23 / 19–25 | 26 / 22–28 | 27 / 24–29 | 29 / 27–31 |
| Night °C | 19 / 17–21 | 19 / 17–21 | 17 / 15–19 | 14 / 12–17 | 11 / 9–14 | 8 / 6–10 | 7 / 5–9 | 8 / 5–10 | 11 / 8–13 | 14 / 11–16 | 16 / 13–18 | 18 / 16–20 |
| Rain mm | 84 / 66–114 | 91 / 68–137 | 54 / 45–82 | 44 / 38–72 | 45 / 38–66 | 39 / 32–56 | 37 / 24–54 | 32 / 24–48 | 35 / 24–47 | 62 / 51–73 | 79 / 68–100 | 97 / 76–128 |
| DLI | 43 / 40–46 | 38 / 35–41 | 35 / 32–38 | 29 / 25–31 | 23 / 19–26 | 20 / 16–24 | 22 / 18–25 | 28 / 24–31 | 36 / 32–38 | 40 / 38–43 | 42 / 40–44 | 44 / 41–46 |
| RH % | 55 / 52–61 | 57 / 54–62 | 56 / 52–61 | 57 / 53–60 | 58 / 54–60 | 58 / 55–60 | 56 / 54–59 | 54 / 51–56 | 53 / 48–55 | 53 / 49–56 | 54 / 51–58 | 54 / 52–59 |
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
Photographs: (c) O.Neate, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (4); (c) Greg Tasney, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2).
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Dodonaea lanceolata Hop bush Photo: CC BY, Lucas Christofides
Dodonaea lobulata Lobe-leaf hopbush Photo: CC BY, Daniel Falster
Dodonaea microzyga Brilliant hop-bush Photo: CC BY, Em Lamond
Dodonaea multijuga Sapindaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Greg Tasney
Dodonaea rupicola Sapindaceae Photo: CC BY, Peter Crowcroft
Dodonaea sinuolata Feathery Hop Bush Photo: CC BY-SA, Lachlan Copeland
Dodonaea stenozyga Desert hopbush Photo: CC BY, Rosalie Lawrence
Dodonaea triquetra Common Hop Bush Photo: CC BY, ronavery
Dodonaea viscosa Hopbush Photo: CC BY-SA, Nicola van Berkel Names & registers
Also known as Dodonaea lindleyana; Dodonaea mollis; Dodonaea trigona. (GBIF Backbone)
The record
Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →
Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
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