Acronychia laevis is a rainforest plant in the citrus family, growing in eastern Australia. The common name is the hard aspen. The habitat is dry rainforest, up to 700 metres above sea level. It grows from the upper Clarence River, New South Wales to Cape York Peninsula at the northernmost tip of Australia. It is also found on New Caledonia and Lord Howe Island. The true aspens of the Northern Hemisphere belong to the genus Populus in the family Salicaceae.