Cryptocarya clarksoniana, commonly known as Clarkson's laurel, is a tree in the laurel family and is endemic to north Queensland. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, the flowers creamy-green and tube-shaped, and the fruit a spherical black drupe.
Cryptocarya clarksoniana is a tree that typically grows to a height of, its stems not buttressed. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are usually arranged in panicles shorter than the leaves and are perfumed. The tepals are long and wide, the outer anthers long and wide, the inner anthers long and wide. Flowering occurs from December to March, and the fruit is a spherical or elliptic black drupe long and wide.[1] [2]
Cryptocarya clarksoniana was first formally described in 1989 by Bernard Hyland in Australian Systematic Botany.[3]
This species of Cryptocarya grows in rainforest rich in Agathis robusta in soils derived from granite, at altitudes from sea level to . It is found from the Big Tableland south of Cooktown to Goldsborough in north-eastern Queensland.