Cryptocarya grandis

Cryptocarya grandis, commonly known as cinnamon laurel or white laurel, is a tree in the laurel family and is endemic to north Queensland. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, the flowers creamy-green, unpleasantly perfumed and tube-shaped, and the fruit a spherical drupe.

Description
Cryptocarya grandis is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to 35 m, its stems sometimes buttressed and its twigs glabrous. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic, 65–155 mm long and 30–75 mm wide on a petiole 6–17 mm long. The flowers are arranged in panicles longer than the leaves and are unpleasantly perfumed, the perianth 0.9–1.6 mm long and 1.2–1.6 mm wide and hairy near the tip. The outer tepals are 1.6–2.4 mm long and 1.0–1.3 mm wide and the inner tepals are 1.6–2.3 mm long and 1.3–1.6 mm wide. The outer anthers 0.6–0.9 mm long and 0.6–0.8 mm wide, the inner anthers 0.7–0.8 mm long and 0.4–0.6 mm wide and hairy. Flowering occurs from November to February, and the fruit is spherical drupe 13–16 mm long and 14–22 mm wide with creamy-white cotyledons.

Taxonomy
Cryptocarya grandis was first formally described in 1989 by Bernard Hyland in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected by Bruce Gray in 1980.

Distribution and habitat
Cinnamon laurel grows in rainforest at altitudes from sea level to 1000 m from near the Iron Range to Eungella in north Queensland.