Cryptocarya angulata

Cryptocarya angulata is a rainforest tree that typically grows to a height of , but its stem is not usually buttressed. Its leaves are lance-shaped to elliptic or egg-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are borne in panicles that are shorter than the leaves, the flowers sometimes with an unpleasant odour. The tepals are long, the outer anthers long and the inner anthers long. Flowering occurs from November to January, and the fruit is an elliptic, blue-black to black drupe long and wide. ==Taxonomy==

Cryptocarya angulata was first formally described in 1933 by Cyril Tenison White in Contributions from the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, from specimens collected from Gadgarra on the Atherton Tableland at an altitude of about . ==Distribution and habitat==

Ivory laurel grows in rainforest at altitudes up to above sea level, between Cooktown and Eungella in north Queensland. ==References==