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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = Antarctic Beech
| image = Antarctic Beech Tree Base (Nothofagus Mooreri).jpg
| image_width = 240px
| image_caption = Base of trees in Lamington National Park, [[Queensland]], [[Australia]]
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Fagales]]
| familia = [[Nothofagus|Nothofagaceae]]
| genus = ''[[Nothofagus]]''
| species = '''''N. moorei'''''
| binomial = ''Nothofagus moorei''
| binomial_authority = (F. Muell.) Krasser
}}

'''''Nothofagus moorei''''', once referred to as 'Negrohead beech', but now as 'Antarctic beech' (not to be confused with its South American relative, ''[[Nothofagus antarctica]]'') is an [[evergreen]] tree native to the eastern highlands of [[Australia]].

It grows in warm [[temperate]] [[rainforest]]s from the Barrington Tops plateau in [[New South Wales]], north to the Lamington Plateau in southern [[Queensland]], between altitudes of 500 m to 1500 m.<ref name="tops">{{cite web |url=http://www.bio.mq.edu.au/ecology/abasden/Barrington.html |title=Barrington Tops |accessdate=2007-08-17}}</ref>

These trees typically grow to 25 m tall and have large trunks to 1 m in diameter with scaly, dark brown bark. The [[Leaf|leaves]] are simple and alternate, growing six centimeters long.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yallaroo.com.au/Nothofagus_moorei.htm |title=Nothofagus moorei |accessdate=2007-08-17}}</ref> The leaf color is dark green, with new growth brilliant red, or orange in spring.  The tree is partially deciduous, dropping half its leaves in autumn.  They are triangular with fine teeth. The [[flower]]s are inconspicuous yellow-green [[catkin]]s. The [[fruit]], produced from December to February, are a capsule of four prickly valves containing three small winged [[nut (fruit)|nuts]].