Stenocarpus cryptocarpus
Introduction '''''Stenocarpus cryptocarpus''''', commonly known as the '''giant-leaved stenocarpus''', is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to north Queensland. It is a tree with buttress roots at the base, simple, mostly elliptical adult leaves, groups of cream-coloured flowers and narrow oblong follicles.
Description ''Stenocarpus cryptocarpus'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to , with a dbh of up to . It is a canopy tree and has buttress roots at the base. The leaves of young plants are bipinnate, up to  long on a petiole  long. Adult leaves are simple, elliptic, more or less oblong or egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base, and  long on a petiole  long.The leaves are glossy green and covered with woolly, rust-coloured hairs when young. The flower groups are arranged in leaf axils near the ends of branches with up to 20 flowers on a peduncle  long. The individual flowers are cream-coloured, strongly perfumed and  long, each flower on a pedicel  long. Flowering occurs from December to April and the fruit is a narrow oblong follicle up to  long.
Taxonomy ''Stenocarpus cryptocarpus'' was first formally described in 1988 by botanists Don Foreman and Bernie Hyland in the journal ''Muelleria'' from specimens collected by Hyland from North Queensland in 1969.The specific epithet (''cryptocarpus'') means "hidden-fruited".
Distribution and habitat Giant leaved stenocarpus grows in rainforest at altitudes up to  between Cooktown and Innisfail.
References
External links * *  View a map of recorded sightings of ''Stenocarpus cryptocarpus'' at the Australasian Virtual Herbarium*  See images of ''Stenocarpus cryptocarpus'' on Flickriver