Flindersia

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Phylogeny & links to associated information:

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Plant  information

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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

Additional notes:     

• 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:

    • 1. Flindersia acuminata – silver silkwood, silver maple (Qld.)

      2. Flindersia amboinensis – (Moluccas to New Guinea)

      3. Flindersia australis – Australian teak, crows ash (Qld., N.S.W.)

      4. Flindersia bennettii – Bennett's ash (Qld., N.S.W.)

      5. Flindersia bourjotiana - Queensland silver ash (Qld.)

      6. Flindersia brassii hard scented maple, Claudie River scented maple – (Qld.)

      7. Flindersia brayleyana – Queensland maple, maple silkwood (Qld.)

      8. Flindersia collina - broad-leaved leopard tree (Qld., N.S.W.)

      9. Flindersia dissosperma – scrub leopardwood (Qld.)

      10. Flindersia fournieri – (New Caledonia)

      11. Flindersia ifflana F.Muell. – hickory ash, Cairns hickory (Qld.)

      12. Flindersia laevicarpa

          • Flindersia laevicarpa var. laevicarpa – scented maple, rose ash (Qld.)

          • Flindersia laevicarpa var. heterophylla (New Guinea)

      13. Flindersia maculosa – leopardwood, leopard tree (Qld., N.S.W.)

      14. Flindersia oppositifolia – mountain silkwood (Qld.)

      15. Flindersia pimenteliana – maple silkwood, rose silkwood (New Guinea, Qld.)

      16. Flindersia schottiana – silver ash, cudgerie, bumpy ash (New Guinea, Qld., N.S.W.)

      17. Flindersia xanthoxyla - yellowwood, long jack (Qld., N.S.W.)

• Uses

  • Some species yield timbers that are widely used for flooring and cabinet wor

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flindersia (2023)