Common Names
Moore kauri (1).Taxonomic notes
Description
Tree: Height 15-30 m tall, normally with a clear bole to the base of the rounded, spreading crown (1).Bark: Whitish, exfoliating in fine scales. Inner bark tan or reddish (1).
Branches: Fine, pendent at the tips (1).
Shoots:
Leaves: Lanceolate to elliptic, attenuate, dark green above, pale below, 5-7 × 0.8-1.2 cm, nearly sessile. Juvenile leaves lanceolate, opposite, 20 × 3.3 cm, on a short, wide petiole. Buds short and round with a few large scales (1).
Cones: Globular or pyriform, 10-15 × 9-12 cm (1).
Cone scales: Broadly rounded (1).
Pollen cones: Cylindrical, 2.5-3 × 0.8-0.9 cm, on an 8-12 mm peduncle; scales imbricate, erose and finely denticulate (1).
Seeds: Narrow, with one oblique wing and one small, acute wing (1).
Wood:
Similar species:
Range
New Caledonia: Pembe to Thio and Dumbea to Prony at elevations of 200-1000 m (1).Big Tree
Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
Observations
Remarks
This species is listed as "VU B1+2c" (vulnerable; population is localised, fragmented and declining ) by the World Conservation Monitoring Centre - Trees database, which adds: "Scattered throughout the northern half of the island, the species is found in areas of lowland rainforest mostly on non-ultramafic substrates. Substantial declines have occurred through overexploitation of the timber in recent years. Copal is also extracted at moderate levels."Citations
(1) Silba 1986.[Agathis] [Araucariaceae] [home]
This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
URL: http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/Canopy/2285/ar/au/moorei.htm
Edited by Christopher J. Earle
E-mail:earlecj@earthlink.com
Last modified on 18-Jan-1999