Cryptocarya smaragdina, commonly known as Dina's laurel,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Lauraceae and is endemic to north Queensland.

It is a shrub with lance-shaped leaves, creamy green, unpleasantly perfumed flowers, and spherical black drupes.

Cryptocarya smaragdina is a tree that typically grows to a height of up to 25 m (82 ft) and a dbh of up to 40 cm (16 in), its stems buttressed.

[3][4] Cryptocarya smaragdina was first formally described in 1989 by Bernard Hyland in Australian Systematic Botany from specimens collected near Emerald in 1982.

[6] This species of Cryptocarya is restricted to the Atherton Tableland, between the Tinaroo Hills, the Lamb Range and Koombooloomba, where grows in rainforest, at altitudes between 50 and 1,200 m (160 and 3,940 ft) in north-east Queensland.