Cryptocarya rhodosperma is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae and is endemic to Queensland. It is a tree with lance-shaped to elliptic leaves, greenish, perfumed flowers, and elliptic, black drupes.
Cryptocarya rhodosperma 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 greenish, faintly and possibly unpleasantly perfumed, arranged in panicles about the same length or slightly longer than the leaves. The perianth tube is long and wide, the tepals long and wide. The outer anthers are long and wide, the inner anthers long and wide. Flowering occurs from January to May, and the fruit is an elliptic, black drupe, long and wide with pink cotyledons.[1] [2]
Cryptocarya rhodosperma was first formally described in 1989 by Bernard Hyland in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected in 1983.[3]
This species of Cryptocarya grows as an understorey tree in rainforest, at altitudes between in rainforest, from Lockerbie to Goldsborough in north-east Queensland and Cape York Peninsula.
This species of Cryptocarya is listed as "of least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[4]