Ceratopetalum macrophyllum is a species of plant in the family Cunoniaceae, native to a small area of northeast Queensland, Australia. It is a rainforest tree, first described in 1981, with a conservation status of near-threatened.
Description This is a tree with a trunk reaching up to diameter, with conspicuous lenticels about diameter. Leaves are simple, up to long and wide, with 20 – 30 lateral veins on either side of the midrib. They are and have entire margins. The petiole (leaf stalk) is up to long and swollen at its junction with the leaf blade, and the stipules are about long, wide at the base and rounded at the tip, and they fall when the leaf is fully grown. Inflorescences are either or , the flowers have five sepals but no petals.
Distribution and habitat The species is highly restricted in range – it is only found in the catchments of Noah Creek and Roaring Meg Creek, north of the Daintree River, at altitudes between sea level and .
Conservation status This species is listed as near-threatened under the Queensland Government's Nature Conservation Act. , it has not been assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
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Map of herbarium collections of this species at the Australasian Virtual Herbarium Observations of this species on iNaturalist Images of this species on Flickriver.com