Saurauia whitfordii is a species of plant in the Actinidiaceae family.

[2] Elmer Drew Merrill, the American botanist who first formally described the species, named it after Harry Nichols Whitford, another American botanist who collected the specimen Merrill examined.

Its oblong leaves vary in size but are generally 15–20 by 7–8 centimeters and come to a short tapering point at their tips.

Its axillary inflorescences are organized in cymes on peduncles that are 2–3 centimeters long.

[4] The pollen of Saurauia whitfordii is shed as permanent tetrads.