Beilschmiedia castrisinensis is a species of plant in the family Lauraceae native to the Wet Tropics bioregion of Queensland, Australia. It is a rainforest tree, first described in 1989, and it has a conservation status of near-threatened.
Description Beilschmiedia castrisinensis is a large tree that can reach in height and diameter. It is often buttressed, and the bark can be flaky or nondescript. The leaves are green above and (chalky blue-green) underneath. They average about long by wide, and they have between 11 and 19 lateral veins on either side of the midrib. The petiole, or leaf stalk, is about long.
The pale green or cream flowers are very small, with six tepals about long. They do not open widely, and only the tips of the six anthers and the exposed. The fruit is a drupe about long, wide and flattened laterally. It is at first red and then black when ripe.
Distribution This species inhabits rainforest from sea level up to about altitude, and is restricted to the region from the Daintree River north to the Bloomfield River.
Conservation This species is listed as Near-threatened species species|near-threatened]] under the Queensland Government's Nature Conservation Act. , it has not been assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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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