Agathis dammara (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Agathis dammara (Lambert) Rich.

Protologue: Comm. bot. Conif. Cycad.: 83, t. 19 (1826).

• Agathis loranthifolia Salisb. (1807),
• Agathis celebica (Koord.) Warb. (1900),
• Agathis hamii Meijer Drees (1940).

• Indonesia: dammar raja (general), kisi (Buru), salo (Ternate)
• Philippines: dayungon (Samar).

The Philippines (Palawan and Samar), Sulawesi and the Moluccas; planted on a fairly large scale in Java.

The wood is used as kauri. A. dammara is an important source of copal resin.

• A very large tree of up to 65 m tall.
• Adult leaves elliptical, 6-8 cm × 2-3 cm, tapering towards the rounded apex, with solitary resin canals.
• Mature pollen cones 4-6 cm × 1.2-1.4 cm, subtended by a peduncle c. 3 mm long, microsporophylls with a spoon-shaped apical part of c. 2 mm × 2.5 mm, slightly angled at the apex.
• Mature seed cones oval, 9-10.5 cm × 7.5-9.5 cm, seed bracts roughly obtriangular with a small projection near the base on one side.
• Seed with a short acute projection on one upper corner and a wing on the other.

A. dammara is scattered but locally common in lowland rain forest up to 1200 m altitude. It is sometimes regarded as conspecific with A. philippinensis. The density of the wood is 380-660 kg/m³ at 15% moisture content. See also the table on wood properties.

92, 146, 163, 180, 359, 453, 463, 478, 565, 584, 629, 663, 666, 748, 749, 762, 773, 774, 775, 776, 780.

• C.C.H. Jongkind (selection of species)

• Agathis