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 glaucous drupes.
Cryptocarya claudiana is a tree that typically grows to a height of, its stems usually buttressed. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, long and wide on a petiole 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 long and wide, but the colour is often hidden by a glaucous bloom.[1] [2]
Cryptocarya glaucocarpa was first formally described in 1989 by Bernard Hyland in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected near the Claudie River.[3]
This species of Cryptocarya grows in rainforest on soils derived from granite and metamorphic rocks at altitudes up to on the Claudie River plain on Cape York Peninsula.