Agathis celebica
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Description
Huge tree to 65 m tall.
Leaves from fully exposed branches well rounded at the apex but still tapering, not blunt, 6-8 by 2-3 cm, tapering at the base to a 5-10 mm petiole.
Seed c. 14 by 9 mm with a short acute projection on one upper corner and a broad rounded wing c. 24 by 16 mm at the other.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Maluku (Maluku present); Philippines (Philippines present); Sulawesi (Sulawesi present), Palawan present, southern Philippines
Malesia: Celebes and Moluccas to Palawan in the Philippines and probably other parts of southern Philippines. .
Notes
WHITMORE (1980) insists that he can find no difference between this and A. philippinensis among others and certainly the vast majority of the collected materials (shade leaves and immature reproductive organs) is enigmatic. WHITMORE'S descriptions show he is dealing with immature material and the notion that pollen cones continue growth after shedding their pollen is inadmissible. Groups of both species grow side by side at Bogor, where properly mature material can be compared and sharp differences easily seen. Because this is the only species known on Ambon, it is the species which RUMPHIUS () has in mind and, like the closely related A. bomeensis, which occupies similar habitats west of the Makassar Strait, is an important producer of the resin known as dammar.
Citation
MEIJER DREES 1940 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 461
PARL. 1868 – In: DC., Prod. 16: 374
DE LAUB. 1978 – In: Kalikasan: 146
DALLIMORE & JACKSON 1948: Handb. Conif., ed. 3: 178
DE LAUB. 1978: p. 503. – In: Blumea: f. 1
DALLIMORE & JACKSON 1923: Handb. Conif.: 143
MEIJER DREES 1940 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 466
WARB. 1978: p. 504. – In: Blumea: f. 2
HARRISON 1966 – In: Dallimore & Jackson, Handb. Conif., ed. 4: 98
SILBA 1986 – In: Phytologia Mem.: 32