Cryptocarya glaucocarpa

Cryptocarya glaucocarpa is a tree in the laurel family and is endemic to Cape York Peninsula in Queensland. It is a tree with lance-shaped to elliptic leaves, flowers in panicles shorter than the leaves, black to bluish-black and glaucousdrupes.

Cryptocarya glaucocarpa is a tree that typically grows to a height of 10 m (33 ft), its stems usually buttressed. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, 90–160 mm (3.5–6.3 in) long and 30–65 mm (1.2–2.6 in) wide on a petiole7–9 mm (0.28–0.35 in) long. The flowers are arranged in panicles that are shorter than the leaves. Flowering has been observed in December, and the fruit is an elliptic black or bluish-black drupe 13–17 mm (0.51–0.67 in) long and 10–12 mm (0.39–0.47 in) wide, but the colour is often hidden by a glaucous bloom.^[2][3]

Cryptocarya glaucocarpa was first formally described in 1989 by Bernard Hyland in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected near the Claudie River.^[4]

This species of Cryptocarya grows in rainforest on soils derived from granite and metamorphic rocks at altitudes up to 500 m (1,600 ft) on the Claudie River plain on Cape York Peninsula.^[2][3]