Cryptocarya williwilliana, commonly known as small-leaved laurel,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the laurel family and is endemic to near Kempsey in northern New South Wales.

It is a tree or shrub with egg-shaped or lance-shaped leaves, the flowers creamy-green and perfumed, and the fruit a spherical to elliptic, black drupe.

Cryptocarya williwilliana is a tree or shrub that typically grows to a height of 6 m (20 ft) and has fluted twigs.

The flowers are creamy-green and perfumed, usually arranged in a raceme in leaf axils, but shorter than the leaves, the perianth tube 1.3–2 mm (0.051–0.079 in) long and 0.9–1 mm (0.035–0.039 in) wide and hairy inside near the tip.

[2][3] Cryptocarya williwilliana was first formally described in 1989 by Bernard Hyland and Alex Floyd in Australian Systematic Botany, from specimens collected by Hyland near Willi Willi in 1982.