Common Names
Blue kauri.Taxonomic notes
Description
Tree to 50 m tall. Bark purplish-brown or purplish-black, sometimes glaucous, smooth to coarsely scaly. Branchlets sometimes glaucous. Buds globular, to 1.5 mm long. Leaves oval-lanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 37-45 mm long by 8-14 mm wide, closely set, glaucous beneath, apex bluntly notched. Male cones 9-16 mm long by 4-7 mm wide; microsporophylls strongly imbricate, margins entire; anthers 2-5; on a peduncle 2-3 mm long. Female cone globular, 35-55 mm wide, olive-green, somewhat glaucous. Seeds tan, to 12 mm long, wings cinnamon-brown, larger wing to 15 mm wide (1).Range
Australia: N Queensland, Bellenden Ker Range, 900-1500m (1).Big Tree
Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
Observations
Remarks
This species is listed as "Lower Risk, near threatened" on the World Conservation Monitoring Centre - Trees database, which adds: "A timber species scattered in montane rainforest. Wherever logging is allowed exploitation has been very heavy and populations have declined. A large percentage of the forests is now protected."Citations
(1) Silba 1986.[Agathis] [Araucariaceae] [home]
This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
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Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.com
Last modified on 27-Feb-1999