Lindsay Stuart Smith (27 November 1917 – 12 September 1970) was an Australian botanist, naturalist and public servant.
[1] During World War II, Smith made collections of rainforest species in New Guinea and subsequently studied these species with the help of Cyril Tenison White and William Douglas Francis and some of his collections become the nucleus of the herbarium at Lae.
His notes on the biological control of Lantana were published after his death by his wife, Doris Alma Goy.
[1] The species named by Smith include Austromyrtus dulcis, Elaeocarpus stellaris, Myoporum betcheanum, and Xanthostemon verticillatus, and the genera Peripentadenia, Neorites and Neostrearia.
[3] Smith suffered a heart attack and died at the age of 52, doing his work collecting plants at Mount Barney with his wife.