Cryptocarya oblata, commonly known as the bolly silkwood, silkwood, bolly, tarzali or tarzali silkwood,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae and is endemic to north-eastern Queensland. It is a tree with lance-shaped to elliptic leaves, creamy green, perfumed flowers, and flattened spherical to pear-shaped, red to orange drupes.
Cryptocarya oblata is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to, its stems usually buttressed. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged in panicles shorter than the leaves. They are creamy-green and perfumed, the perianth tube long and wide, the tepals long and wide. The outer anthers are long and wide, the inner anthers long and wide. Flowering occurs from November to February, and the fruit is a laterally compressed to red to orange drupe, long and wide with white or cream-coloured cotyledons.[2]
Cryptocarya oblata was first formally described in 1894 by Frederick Manson Bailey in the Botany Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture Queensland, from specimens collected at the Daintree River.[3]
This species of Cryptocarya grows rainforest from sea level to an altitude of up to, between Cooktown and Koombooloomba in central eastern Queensland.