Cryptocarya nova-anglica is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to with a
dbh of , its stems not
buttressed, but often with
coppice shoots at the base. Its new growth has fawn-coloured hairs pressed against the stem, but is later
glabrous. Its leaves are egg-shaped, lance-shaped or elliptic, long and wide on a
petiole long, glossy green on the upper surface and
glaucous below. The flowers are arranged in
racemes barely longer than the petioles, and mostly in leaf axils. They are creamy-green, the
perianth tube about long and wide. The outer
anthers are long and wide, the inner anthers about long and wide. Flowering occurs from December to January, and the fruit is a spherical to pear-shaped black drupe, long and wide with creamy
cotyledons. ==Taxonomy==