Cryptocarya microneura Meisn.

Tree to 15 m high. Stem not buttressed. Twigs terete, eventually almost glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 5–11 cm long; lamina lanceolate to elliptic, 6.2–11.5 cm long, 2–4.5 cm wide, green or ± glaucous below, penniveined, eventually ± glabrescent. Inflorescence usually exceeding leaves. Flowers cream, not perfumed. Tepals pubescent; outer 1.4–1.7 mm long, 1–1.1 mm wide; inner 1.5–1.9 mm long, 1–1.4 mm wide. Outer anthers 0.7–0.8 mm long, 0.5–0.6 mm wide, pubescent abaxially, glabrous adaxially; filaments 0.5–0.6 mm long. Inner anthers 0.6–0.8 mm long, 0.3–0.5 mm wide, glabrous abaxially, pubescent adaxially; filaments 0.6–0.7 mm long. Ovary 1.3–1.4 mm long, c. 0.7 mm wide, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; style glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Fruit globular to ellipsoidal, 12–14 mm long, 10–14 mm wide, black. Cotyledons creamy yellow.

Grows in rainforest and wet sclerophyll forests, more commonly in soils derived from sedimentary and acid volcanic rocks; from sea level to 600 m alt.