Agathis spathulata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Agathis spathulata de Laubenf.

Protologue: Fl. Malesiana, ser. I, vol. 10: 435 (1988).

Synonyms

• Agathis robusta (Moore) Bailey subsp. nesophila Whitmore (1980).

Vernacular names

• Papua New Guinea: New Guinea kauri.

Distribution

Papua New Guinea.

Uses

The wood is used as kauri.

Observations

• A very large tree of up to 60 m tall.
• Adult leaves 7-10 cm × 1.8-3 cm, bluntly acute to broadly rounded at the top, tapering into a 5-10 mm long petiole.
• Mature pollen cones oblong, 4-7 cm × 0.9-1.3 cm, microsporophylls with a spoon-shaped apex of 1.5-2 mm × 1.3-1.5 mm.
• Mature seed cones oval, 8.5-10 cm × 6.5-7.5 cm, seed bracts broadly obtriangular-ovate, with a small projection at the base on one side and a larger one higher up on the other.
• Sseed with a sharp projection on one upper corner and a wing on the other.

A. spathulata occurs scattered as an emergent tree of rain forest or in groves on exposed sites at 900-2000 m altitude.

Selected sources

331, 748, 774, 778, 780.

Authors

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

Main genus page

• Agathis