Cryptocarya dorrigoensis, commonly known as Dorrigo laurel,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the laurel family and is native to northern New South Wales. It is a tree with lance-shaped leaves, the flowers greenish-cream to creamy-yellow but not perfumed, and the fruit is a spherical to elliptic, black to bluish-black drupe.
Cryptocarya dorrigoensis is a tree that typically grows to a height of, its stems not buttressed but its young growth densely hairy. Its leaves are lance-shaped, egg-shaped to elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are greenish-cream to creamy-yellow, usually arranged in a raceme less than the leaves but not perfumed, the perianth tube long and wide and hairy inside. The tepals are long and wide, the outer anthers long and about wide, the inner anthers long and about wide. Flowering occurs from May to November, and the fruit is a black to bluish-black, spherical to elliptic drupe long and wide.[2]
Cryptocarya dorrigoensis was first formally described in 1989 by Bernard Patrick Matthew Hyland in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected by Cyril Tenison White near Dorrigo in 1930.[3]
Dorrigo laurel grows in mountain rainforest from near Coffs Harbour to Point Lookout at altitudes of .