Range of Agathis lenticula (2). Borneo basemap from:
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Common Names
Tanggilan, tengilan, tungilan [Dusun] (2); Sabah kauri (1).Taxonomic notes
Description
"An immense tree to 45 m tall. Produces white resin. Bark gray-white externally, internally reddish-brown, exfoliating in irregular plates, with numerous lenticels. Juvenile trees with flaky bark. Juvenile leaves round, acuminate, on a short peduncle, to 10 cm long by 4.4 cm wide. Adult leaves lenticular, apex acute, 5-7 cm long by 1.8-2.4 cm wide, glaucous below, on a short peduncle. Male strobili cylindrical, to 4 cm long by 10 mm wide, on a peduncle to 6 mm long; scale apices round. Female cone-scale semi-elliptical, 28 mm high by 40-45 mm wide. Young female cone oval with imbricate margins of seed scales sometimes slightly raised" (1).Range
Borneo: Sabah, Mt. Kinabalu and the Crocker Range, where it grows at 1140-1680 m elevation as an emergent in mountain rainforest (2).Big Tree
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Ethnobotany
Observations
Readily seen on Mt. Kinabalu, where it grows just below A. kinabaluensis (2).Remarks
This species is listed as "VU D2" (vulnerable, known from fewer than five localities) by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre - Trees database, which adds: "Occurring in lower montane forest and possibly hill forest, this large tree is known only from Mt. Kinabalu and the adjacent Crocker range. Populations in the former are relatively well protected. The Crocker range, however, is a large area with a poorly defined boundary. There are frequent illegal incursions, mainly to remove timber from this species."Citations
(1) Silba 1986.(2) de Laubenfels 1988.
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Edited by Christopher J. Earle
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Last modified on 27-Jan-1999