Ricinocarpos verrucosus is a species of flowering plant in the family Euphorbiaceae and is endemic to north-eastern Queensland.

Ricinocarpos verrucosus is a monoecious shrub that typically grows to up to a height 4 m (13 ft), and has many stems, its young branchlets glabrous.

[2] Ricinocarpos verrucosus was first formally described in 2007 by David Halford and Rodney Henderson in the journal Austrobaileya from a specimen collected by Henderson at Mount Alto, 4 km (2.5 mi) south-south-west of Mount Carbine in 1989.

[2][3] The specific epithet (verrucosus) means "warty", referring to the texture of the surface of the fruit.

[2] This species grows among granite boulders on rocky hillsides or on the banks of rocky streams in open woodland, in Cape Melville National Park and around Mount Carbine in north-eastern Queensland.