Cryptocarya exfoliata is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae family and is native to Cape York Peninsula the Northern Territory and New Guinea. Its leaves are lance-shaped, the flowers creamy-green and slightly perfumed, and the fruit is a spherical to elliptic black drupe.
Cryptocarya exfoliata is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to, its stems sometimes buttressed and its young growth softly hairy. Its leaves are lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are creamy-green and slightly perfumed, usually arranged in a panicle more or less the same length as the leaves, the perianth tube long, wide and hairy. The tepals are long and wide, the outer anthers long and wide, the inner anthers long and wide. Flowering occurs from January to March, and the fruit is a black, spherical to elliptic drupe long and wide.[1] [2]
Cryptocarya exfoliata was first formally described in 1942 by Caroline Kathryn Allen in the Journal of the Arnold Arboretum from specimens collected by Leonard John Brass near the Middle Fly River in New Guinea.[3] [4]
This species of Cryptocarya grows in rainforest in New Guinea, Arnhem Land, the Torres Strait Islands and from Cape York Peninsula to Cairns in Queensland, at altitudes from sea level to .