Flindersia maculosa (Lindl.) Benth.

Tree to 15 m high, developing from a divaricately branched shrub stage armed with spur branchlets. Trichomes simple, fasciculate, stellate, and scale-like. Leaves opposite, simple (rarely occasional leaves trifoliolate), 1.5–8.5 cm long; petiole neither winged nor marginate, 0.1–1.2 cm long; lamina narrowly elliptic, narrowly obovate, or sublinear, 1–8 cm long, 0.25–1 (–1.5) cm wide, rounded to acute. Inflorescences 1–8 cm long. Flowers apparently exclusively bisexual. Sepals 1–1.5 mm long. Petals 3–4 mm long, white or cream, glabrous abaxially, glabrous or sparsely papillose adaxially. Ovules 2 on each side of placental arms. Capsule 2–4 cm long, separating (or easily separable) into 5 distinct valves at maturity; exocarp muricate, glabrous, with excrescences 1–2 mm long. Seeds 2 on each side of much-enlarged placental arms, c. 1.8 cm long, winged at both ends. Embryo with lateral hypocotyl.

It is a subtropical plant. It grows in sandy plains and rocky areas.

Details of the utilisation of Flindersia maculosa are provided by J.C. Doran et al., in J.C. Doran & J.W. Turnbull (eds), Australian Trees and Shrubs: Species for Land Rehabilitation and Farm Planting in the Tropics 290–291 (1997).

Can be grown by seedlings.