Flindersia
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Flowers:
The flowers are arranged in panicles at the ends of branchlets or in upper leaf axils and have five sepals and five petals
The flowers are bisexual, or sometimes only have stamens
There are five stamens opposite the sepals, alternating with five staminodes
The ovary has five locules and is more or less spherical with five shallow lobes and there are between four and six ovules in each locule
Fruit:
The fruit is a woody capsule
This splits into five and contains brown, winged seeds
Leaves:
They have simple or pinnate leaves
Pinnate leaves have up to sixteen leaflets
The side leaflets arranged in opposite pairs
Stem & branches:
Roots:
Habit:
Small to large trees
Habitat:
Many species of Flindersia grow in rainforest
Distribution:
They grow naturally in Australia, the Moluccas, New Guinea and New Caledonia
Species:
Of the seventeen species, fifteen occur in Australia, twelve of which are endemic
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Taxonomy
Flindersia is a genus in the family Rutaceae
It was s first formally described in 1814 by Robert Brown in Matthew Flinders' sea voyage journal A Voyage to Terra Australis
Brown named the type species, Flindersia australis in the same journal from specimens collected near Broad Sound in September 1802
Species list
The following is a list of species accepted by the Australian Plant Census or The Plant List* for species outside Australia:
Flindersia acuminata – silver silkwood, silver maple (Qld.)
Flindersia amboinensis – (Moluccas to New Guinea)
Flindersia australis – Australian teak, crows ash (Qld., N.S.W.)
Flindersia bennettii – Bennett's ash (Qld., N.S.W.)
Flindersia bourjotiana - Queensland silver ash (Qld.)
Flindersia brassii hard scented maple, Claudie River scented maple – (Qld.)
Flindersia brayleyana – Queensland maple, maple silkwood (Qld.)
Flindersia collina - broad-leaved leopard tree (Qld., N.S.W.)
Flindersia dissosperma – scrub leopardwood (Qld.)
Flindersia fournieri – (New Caledonia)
Flindersia ifflana F.Muell. – hickory ash, Cairns hickory (Qld.)
Flindersia laevicarpa
Flindersia laevicarpa var. laevicarpa – scented maple, rose ash (Qld.)
Flindersia laevicarpa var. heterophylla (New Guinea)
Flindersia maculosa – leopardwood, leopard tree (Qld., N.S.W.)
Flindersia oppositifolia – mountain silkwood (Qld.)
Flindersia pimenteliana – maple silkwood, rose silkwood (New Guinea, Qld.)
Flindersia schottiana – silver ash, cudgerie, bumpy ash (New Guinea, Qld., N.S.W.)
Flindersia xanthoxyla - yellowwood, long jack (Qld., N.S.W.)
Uses
Some species yield timbers that are widely used for flooring and cabinet wor
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