Argophyllum lejourdanii is a plant in the Argophyllaceae family endemic to a part of north eastern Queensland, Australia.

This species was first described (as A. lejourdani) in 1863 by the German-born Australian botanist Ferdinand von Mueller who published it in his work Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.

cryptophleba and respelled the species epithet with an extra "i", making it lejourdanii,[5] presumably as a correction of the Latin grammar.

[citation needed] More than a hundred years later, Anthony Bean and Paul Forster conducted a wide-scale review of the genus in which they redefined A. lejourdanii and described seven new species—including promoting A. l. var.

[3][6] It usually inhabits open forest but is also found on the edges of rainforest, near rocky outcrops, and along stream margins.