Elaeocarpus linsmithii is a species of flowering plant in the family Elaeocarpaceae and is endemic to north-east Queensland. It is a shrub with oblong to elliptic leaves, white or pale green flowers and oval fruit.
Elaeocarpus linsmithii is a shrub that typically grows to a height of NaNm (-2,147,483,648feet) with a dbh of less than . The leaves are leathery, oblong to elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in racemes of six to thirteen on a rachis long, each flower on a pedicel long. The flowers are white or pale green, long with five narrow oblong to lance-shaped sepals long, wide and densely covered with silky brown hairs on the outside. The five petals are egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, long and wide and there are between twenty-eight and thirty-five stamens. Flowering occurs from April to June and the fruit is a more or less oval drupe long and wide.[1] [2]
Elaeocarpus linsmithii was first formally described in 1984 by Gordon P. Guymer in the Kew Bulletin.[3] The specific epithet (linsmithii) honours Lindsay Stuart Smith.
Elaeocarpus linsmithii grows in rainforest at altitudes of in the Mount Spurgeon - Mount Lewis area and near the summit of Mount Bartle Frere in north-eastern Queensland.
Elaeocarpus linsmithii is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[4]