Agathis
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Description
Monoecious trees often of immense size with clear straight boles below the globular crown, the large branches often turning irregularly upward;
Bark at first quite smooth and light gray to reddish brown, peeling with large thin irregular flakes that gradually become thicker leaving a pitted somewhat rough reddish brown surface on larger trees.
Following the cotyledons the leaves are little more than triangular scales with a distinct central vein and several lateral veins.
Seed scale complex fused with the bract.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: Malaya present; New Guinea present; Philippines (Philippines present), Pacific: Fiji (Fiji present), Solomons present, coast of Queensland present, northern New Zealand present
Fossil wood attributed to Agathis has been found in the Upper Cretaceous and Tertiary of New Zealand and from the Jurassic to the Tertiary in Australia, as well as in the Tertiary of Western Australia. Cone scales have been found in the northern hemisphere but the identification is uncertain ().
Three sections with 21 spp. from Malaya and the Philippines across New Guinea and the coast of Queensland to Fiji and northern New Zealand; in Malesia 11 spp. There is a gap in the Solomons. .
Citation
FRANCO 1951 – In: An. Inst. Sup. Agron.: 101
MEIJER DREES 1940 – In: Bull. Jard. Bot. Btzg: 455
PARL. 1868 – In: DC., Prod. 16: 374
ENDL. 1847: Syn. Conif.: 188
SEWARD & FORD 1906 – In: Trans. R. Soc. Lond.: 310
WARB. 1900 – In: Monsunia: 182
RICHARD 1826: Comm. Bot. Conif. Cycad: 83: t. 19
HENKEL & HOCHSTETTER 1865: Synop. Nadelhölz.: 209
PILGER 1926 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam., ed. 2, 13: 266
CARR. 1855: Traité Gén. Conif.: 424
SALISB. 1980: p. 46. – In: Pl. Syst. Evol.: f. 1-5
GAUSSEN 1970 – In: Gymn. Act. & Foss.: 75
LINK 1857 – In: Man. Pl.: 363
WHITM. 1977 – In: Trop. For. Pap.: 3
SILBA 1986 – In: Phytologia Mem.: 31
GORDON 1858: Pinetum, ed. 1: 77
DALLIMORE & JACKSON 1923: Handb. Conif.: 138
Blume 1847 – In: Rumphia: 211
DE LAUB. 1972 – In: Fl. NOUV. Caléd. et Dép.: 126