Hedycarya loxocarya, commonly known as yellow beech[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Monimiaceae, and is endemic to north-eastern Queensland.

It is a small to medium tree with egg-shaped to elliptic leaves, and male and female flowers on separate plants.

[2][3] This species was first formally described in 1870 by George Bentham who gave it the name Mollinedia loxocarya in his Flora Australiensis from specimens collected near Rockingham Bay by John Dallachy.

[4][5] In 1931,William Douglas Francis transferred the species to Hedycarya as H. loxocarya in the Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew.

[6][7] Hedycarya loxocarya grows in rainforest or the edges of tall open forest, and is endemic to north-eastern Queensland from south of Cooktown to Paluma Range National Park, at altitudes between 350 and 1,150 m (1,150 and 3,770 ft).