Cryptocarya putida is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae and is endemic to Queensland.

It is a tree with oblong to elliptic or narrowly egg-shaped leaves, brownish, creamy green, unpleasantly perfumed flowers, and oval, black to purplish drupes.

The flowers are brownish, creamy green and unpleasantly perfumed, arranged in panicles about the same length as the leaves.

[2][3] Cryptocarya putida was first formally described in 1989 by Bernard Hyland in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected in 1978.

[2][3] This species of Cryptocarya is listed as "of least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.