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Hard Scented Maple

Flindersia brassii

Hard Scented Maple
Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author, CC BY 3.0 au
Family
Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
Queensland (Cape York Pen.)
Climate
wet tropical

About

Flindersia brassii, commonly known as hard scented maple or Claudie River scented maple, is a species of tree that is endemic to Queensland. It has pinnate leaves with between four and nine narrow elliptical leaflets, white or cream-coloured flowers arranged in panicles, and fruit studded with rough points.

Where it grows

Hard scented maple is only known from the type location and nearby Mount Carter where it grows in dry rainforest at altitudes between 60 and 540 m (200 and 1,770 ft).

Other Flindersia plants

Flindersia acuminata · Flindersia amboinensis · Australian Teak · Bennett's Ash · Flindersia bourjotiana · Queensland maple · Broad Leaved Leopard Tree · Flindersia dissosperma · Cairns hickory · Flindersia laevicarpa · Leopardtree · Flindersia oppositifolia

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Flindersia brassii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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