Wilkiea cordata is a species of flowering plant in the family Monimiaceae, and is endemic to north-east Queensland. It is a shrub or small tree with oblong leaves, male and female flowers on separate plants, male flowers with stamens in 2 pairs, female flowers with about 25 carpels, and the fruit is an oval drupe with a yellow receptacle with an orange tinge.
Wilkiea cordata is a shrub or small tree that typically grows to a height of . Its leaves are oblong, long and wide on a petiole long. The base of the leaves is heart-shaped to almost stem-clasping, the edges sometimes serrated and the midrib is prominent on both surfaces.
Male and female flowers are borne on separate plants. Male flowers are borne in leaf axils sometimes in clusters of up to 3, long, with 6 tepals, the individual flowers on a pedicel long, with stamens in 2 pairs. Female flowers are usually borne singly in leaf axils, or on the ends of branchlets, the flowers more or less spherical, long and in diameter, on a pedicel long, with about 25 carpels. Flowering occurs from January to March.
The fruit is a purplish-black or black drupe, long and wide, with a yellow fruiting receptacle tinged with orange.
Wilkiea cordata was first formally described in 2007 by Trevor Paul Whiffin in Flora of Australia, from specimens collected on Mount Haig.
This species of Wilkiea grows in the understorey of rainforest at altitudes from . The natural range is from about Rossville south to the Atherton Tableland and Mount Bartle Frere.