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"Above 1200 m, Mont Panié is forested with kauris (Agathis montana). In the understory are abundant palms and ferns; on the trunks grow Freycinetia" (2).
Agathis montana de Laubenfels

Common Names

Taxonomic notes

Description

Tree: Height 15-20 m with a large, flattened crown (1).
Bark: Tan, exfoliating in fine plates or scales, with small lenticels. Inner bark red-brown (1).
Branches:
Shoots:
Leaves: Alternate, lanceolate to elliptic, bluntly acute, 6-8 cm × 1.5-2 cm, shortly petiolate. Juvenile leaves oval-lanceolate, attenuate at the base, 8-10 cm × 2.6-3.5 cm. Buds globular (1).
Cones: Globular, 9 cm × 7 cm, on a thick peduncle (1).
Cone scales: Ovoid, obtuse (1).
Pollen cones: Cylindrical, 4-5 × 0.8-1 cm, scales imbricate and slightly denticulate (1).
Seeds: Rounded with an obovoid wing on one side (1).
Wood:
Other features:
Similar species:

Range

"NE New Caledonia: Mt. Panie, 1000-1640 m" (1).

Big Tree

Oldest

Dendrochronology

Ethnobotany

Observations

Remarks

This species is listed as "LR/cd" (lower risk, conservation dependent) by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre - Trees database, which adds: "A species restricted to high altitude rainforests on Mt. Panié. It is locally abundant and in an area which is relatively inaccessible and well protected."

Citations

(1) Silba 1986.
(2) Schmid 1981.

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This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
URL: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2285/ar/au/montana.htm
Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.com
Last modified on 18-Jan-1999

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