Agathis flavescens

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Agathis flavescens

Description

Small to medium-sized tree to 12 m tall. Seed oval, c. 11 by 9 mm, blunt at one upper corner and with a broad wing 17 by 14 mm at its widest at the other corner.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical, the two or three highest peaks in Peninsular Malaya present
Malesia: the two or three highest peaks in Peninsular Malaya.

Notes

This species corresponds in Malaya to A. philippinensis which it strongly resembles, differing in smaller cones, somewhat differently shaped leaves and seeds and especially by the blunt corner of the seed opposite the wing.

Citation

RIDLEY 1915 – In: J. Fed. Mal. St. Mus.: 3
SILBA 1986 – In: Phytologia Mem.: 33
DALLIMORE & JACKSON 1923: Handb. Conif.: 143
MEIJER DREES 1940 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 464