"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).
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
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Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.com
Last modified on 18-Jan-1999