Flindersia collina

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

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Plant  information

Common name:                Leopard Ash 

• Also, broad-leaved leopard tree, bastard crow's ash or leatherwood

Conservation status:  Least concern

Etymology:   

Flowers:                 

• The flowers are arranged in panicles 30–180 mm long and there are usually at least a few male-only flowers

• The flowers are about 5–8 mm wide

• Sepals are about 1 mm long 

• The petals white and 4–5 mm long

• Flowering occurs through the year, but mainly in spring 

Fruit:                         

• A woody capsule 25–50 mm long containing winged seeds 14–25 mm long

•  Fruit are studded with rough points

Leaves:         

• It usually has pinnate leaves with between three and seven elliptical to spatula-shaped leaves

• The leaves are arranged in more or less opposite pairs and are usually pinnate with between three and seven elliptical to egg-shaped leaflets with the narrower end towards the base

• The leaflets are mostly 25–90 mm long and 10–47 mm wide and sessile

• Simple leaves, when present, are a similar shape to the leaflets, 18–45 mm long and 10–30 mm wide on a petiole 2–15 mm long

Stem & branches: 

• Its bark is shed in oval flakes leaving shallow depressions

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Roots:         

Habit:        

• A tree that typically grows to a height of 40 m  

Habitat:   

• Grows in rainforest and dry scrub from near sea level to an altitude of 700 m 

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to north-eastern Australia

• Between the Rinyirru National Park in far northern Queensland to Toonumbar in far north-eastern NSW

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy

  • Flindersia collina was first formally described in 1898 by Frederick Manson Bailey in the Queensland Agricultural Journal

Sources of information:

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