Eucryphia wilkiei is a species of rainforest shrub endemic to restricted areas of cloud forests on mountain tops in the Wet Tropics region of northeastern Queensland, Australia.

[1][3][4] As of November 2013[update], botanists classify Eucryphia in the family Cunoniaceae.

[3][4] In Jan. 1970 Jack (John H.) Wilkie (1902–1997), orchid expert and botanical explorer of the Mount Bellenden Ker region, was the first European–Australian person to scientifically discover them.

[1] Bernie Hyland formally scientifically described the species name in 1997.

[1] Eucryphia wilkiei’s, endemic, very restricted distribution has obtained the conservation status of "vulnerable", officially listed in the regulation current as of 27 September 2013[update], of the Queensland government legislation, the Nature Conservation Act 1992.