{{Short description|Species of tree}} {{Speciesbox |name = Broad-leaved leopard tree |image = Flindersia dissosperma.jpg |image_caption = Habit near Bauhinia |status = |status_system = |genus = Flindersia |species = dissosperma |authority = (F.Muell.) Domin<ref name="APC">{{cite web |title=''Flindersia dissosperma'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/87763|publisher=Australian Plant Census |accessdate= 17 July 2020}}</ref> |synonyms_ref = <ref name="APC" /> |synonyms = * ''Flindersia strzeleckiana'' <small>F.Muell. nom. illeg.</small> * ''Strzeleckya dissosperma'' <small>F.Muell.</small> }} thumb|Opened fruit
'''''Flindersia dissosperma''''', commonly known as '''scrub leopardwood''',<ref name="FoA">{{cite book |last1=Hartley |first1=Thomas G. |editor-last=Wilson |editor-first=Annette J.G. |title=Flora of Australia (Volume 26) |date=2013 |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study |location=Canberra |page=70 |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Flindersia%20dissosperma |accessdate=17 July 2020}}</ref> is a species of small tree in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to eastern-central Queensland, Australia. It usually has pinnate leaves with between three and five elliptical to egg-shaped leaves, panicles of white to cream-coloured flowers and fruit studded with rough points.
==Description== ''Flindersia dissosperma'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|10|m}}. The leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, {{cvt|15–630|mm}} long, and are usually pinnate with between three and five elliptical to egg-shaped leaflets with the narrower end towards the base. The leaflets are {{cvt|6–37|mm}} long, {{cvt|2–8|mm}} wide, the rachis of the leaf winged and the leaflets sessile. The flowers are arranged in panicles {{cvt|20–90|mm}} long and there are usually at least a few male-only flowers. The sepals are {{cvt|1–1.5|mm}} long and the petals white to cream-coloured and {{cvt|3–3.5|mm}} long. Flowering occurs from August to October and the fruit is a woody capsule {{cvt|20–30|mm}} long containing winged seeds {{cvt|15–18|mm}} long.<ref name="FoA" /><ref name="T.G.Hartley">{{cite journal |last1=Hartley |first1=Thomas Gordon |title=A revision of the genus Flindersia (Rutaceae). |journal=Journal of the Arnold Arboretum |date=1969 |volume=50 |issue=4 |pages=514–516 |doi=10.5962/p.185769 |s2cid=89864345 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41799#page/517/mode/1up |accessdate=17 July 2020|doi-access=free }}</ref>
==Taxonomy== Scrub leopardwood was first formally described in 1857 by Ferdinand von Mueller who published the description in ''Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany'' and gave the plant the name ''Strzeleckya dissosperma''.<ref name=APNI1>{{cite web|title=''Strzeleckya dissosperma''|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/543474 |publisher=APNI|accessdate=17 July 2020}}</ref><ref name="F.Muell.">{{cite journal |last1=von Mueller |first1=Ferdinand |editor-last=Hooker |editor-first=William Jackson |title=New genera discovered during the North Australian Exploring Expedition. |journal=Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany |date=1857 |volume=9 |pages=308–309 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/6327#page/320/mode/1up |accessdate=17 July 2020}}</ref> In 1929, Karel Domin changed the name to ''Flindersia dissosperma'' in ''Bibliotheca Botanica''.<ref name=APNI>{{cite web|title=''Flindersia dissosperma''|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/508023 |publisher=APNI|accessdate=17 July 2020}}</ref>
==Distribution and habitat== Scrub leopardwood mainly grows in dry scrub, often with brigalow (''Acacia harpophylla'') and poplar box (''Eucalyptus populnea''). It is found in east-central Queensland from near Charters Towers to near Springsure.<ref name="FoA" />
==Conservation status== ''Flindersia dissosperma'' is classified as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government ''Nature Conservation Act 1992''.<ref name="DES">{{cite web |title=Species profile—''Flindersia dissosperma''|url=https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species-search/details/?id=17122|publisher=Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science |accessdate=17 July 2020}}</ref>
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dissosperma Category:Sapindales of Australia Category:Flora of Queensland Category:Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller Category:Trees of Australia Category:Plants described in 1857