Cryptocarya nova-anglica, commonly known as mountain laurel,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae and is endemic to New South Wales.

It is a tree with lance-shaped leaves, creamy green flowers, and elliptic to spherical to pear-shaped black drupes.

Cryptocarya nova-anglica is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to 20 m (66 ft) with a dbh of 45 cm (18 in), its stems not buttressed, but often with coppice shoots at the base.

[2][3][4] Cryptocarya nova-anglica was first formally described in 1989 by Bernard Hyland and Alexander Floyd in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected at Point Lookout in the New England National Park.

[5] This species of Cryptocarya grows in montane rainforest, often with Nothofagus moorei, at altitudes between 1,100 and 1,350 m (3,610 and 4,430 ft), and is found in northern New South Wales between Mount Nothofagus in the McPherson Range and Mount Boss near Wauchope.