Citronella smythii, commonly known as northern silky beech, is a species of plant in the family Cardiopteridaceae. It is native to northeast Queensland, Australia, and has a conservation status of least concern.
Description This is a tree up to tall with a fluted trunk and corky fissured bark. The leaves can grow to long and wide, and they are ovate to elliptic in shape. Flowers are clustered on a raceme up to long, and they usually have five petals about long. The fruit is an ellipsoidal drupe up to long and wide, containing a single seed.
Distribution and habitat It is found in northeast Queensland from the Paluma Range National Park to Cape Tribulation. There is also a second population between about Coen and Lockhart River on Cape York Peninsula. It grows in rainforest at altitudes from sea level to about .
Conservation status , this species has been assessed to be of least concern by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and by the Queensland Government under its Nature Conservation Act.
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Map of herbarium collections of this species at the Australasian Virtual Herbarium Observations of this species on iNaturalist Images of this species on Flickriver.com