Other conspecific taxa:

• Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustifolia (0 accessions)
• Dodonaea viscosa subsp. angustissima (0 accessions)
• Dodonaea viscosa subsp. cuneata (0 accessions)
• Dodonaea viscosa subsp. viscosa (0 accessions)

Common names:

• broadleaf hopbush  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• Florida hopbush  (Source: NRCS Cons Pl Mat) - English
• giant hopbush  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• hopshrub  (Source: F LAnt) - English
• sticky hopbush  (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
• faxina-vermelha  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• vassoura-do-campo  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• vassourão-vermelho  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
• vassoura-vermelha  (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)

Economic Importance:

• Environmental: ornamental (for restoration of eroded areas fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001)
• Environmental: revegetator (for restoration of eroded areas fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001)
• Environmental: wildlife habitat (for restoration of eroded areas fide NRCS Cons Pl Mat 2001)
• Medicines: folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Weed: potential seed contaminant (fide Atlas WWeed)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

• NORTHEAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan
• EAST TROPICAL AFRICA: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
• WEST-CENTRAL TROPICAL AFRICA: Cameroon, Zaire
• WEST TROPICAL AFRICA: Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo
• SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA: Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• SOUTHERN AFRICA: Botswana, South Africa [Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Transvaal]
• WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN: Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion, Seychelles

Asia-Temperate

• ARABIAN PENINSULA: Saudi Arabia
• WESTERN ASIA: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq
• CHINA: China [Fujian, Guangdong, Yunnan, Hainan]
• EASTERN ASIA: Japan, [Ryukyu Islands] Taiwan

Asia-Tropical

• INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka
• PAPUASIA: Indonesia, [Irian Jaya] Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands
• INDO-CHINA: India, [Andaman and Nicobar] Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
• MALESIA: Indonesia, [Kalimantan, Celebes, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, Sumatra] Malaysia, Philippines

Australasia

• AUSTRALIA: Australia [New South Wales, Northern Territory (s.), Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia (s.)]
• NEW ZEALAND: New Zealand

Northern America

• SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Florida]
• SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [New Mexico]
• SOUTHWESTERN U.S.A.: United States [Arizona, California]
• NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, Sonora, Tamaulipas]
• SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Hidalgo, Morelos, Veracruz]

Pacific

• NORTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: United States [Hawaii]
• NORTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Guam, Marshall Islands
• SOUTH-CENTRAL PACIFIC: French Polynesia
• SOUTHWESTERN PACIFIC: Fiji, New Caledonia, Niue, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu

Southern America

• CARIBBEAN: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Bermuda, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, Virgin Islands (U.S.)
• CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama
• NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Suriname, Venezuela
• BRAZIL: Brazil
• WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, [Buenos Aires, Entre Rios, Jujuy, Salta, Tucuman] Chile (n.), Uruguay


Cultivated (also cult.)

References:

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2. Bosser, J. M. et al., eds. Flores des Mascareignes. 1976- (F Mascar)
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7. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. (pers. comm.)
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Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=14441. Accessed 7 junio 2026.