''Agathis dammara'', commonly known as the Amboina pine or dammar pine, is a

coniferous Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms. Scientifically, they make up the division Pinophyta (), also known as Coniferophyta () or Coniferae. The division contains a single extant class, Pinopsida. All extant ...

timber Lumber is wood that has been processed into dimensional lumber, including beams and planks or boards, a stage in the process of wood production. Lumber is mainly used for construction framing, as well as finishing (floors, wall panels, wi ...

Agathis wood
tree native to

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, the

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and the

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Description

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''Agathis dammara'' is a medium-large conifer up to 60 metres in height found in tropical rainforests, growing from sea level to very high mountainous regions where it becomes extremely stunted. It belongs to the southern hemisphere family

Araucariaceae Araucariaceae – also known as araucarians – is an extremely ancient family of coniferous trees. The family achieved its maximum diversity during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods and the early Cenozoic, when it was distributed almost worldw ...

, widespread throughout the entire Mesozoic, emerging about 200 million years ago. An extinct genus, ''Protodammara'' (which appeared long ago, during the Mesozoic), derives its name from this tree. This tree is a source of

dammar gum Dammar, also called dammar gum, or damar gum, is a resin obtained from the tree family Dipterocarpaceae in India and Southeast Asia, principally those of the genera ''Shorea'' or ''Hopea'' (synonym ''Balanocarpus''). The resin of some species of ...

, also known as cat-eye resin.

Taxonomy

When first discovered and listed as a species it was placed in the genus ''

Pinus A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae. The World Flora Online created by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew and Missouri Botanical Garden accep ...

'' (Lambert, 1803), and then later with the firs, ''

Abies Firs (''Abies'') are a genus of 48–56 species of evergreen coniferous trees in the family Pinaceae. They are found on mountains throughout much of North and Central America, Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The genus is most closely related to ...

'' (Poir 1817), and then with its own genus, ''Dammara''. It was first recognised as being part of ''Agathis'' in 1807, when it was listed as ''Agathis loranthifolia'', and beyond that with species names ''beccarii'', ''celebica'' and ''macrostachys'', although it acquired many more names before ''dammara'' was settled on. ''Agathis celebica'' and ''Agathis philippinensis'' were previously considered distinct species but since 2010 have been synonymous with ''Agathis dammara''.

References

External links

''Agathis dammara''
at the Gymnosperm Database.

dammara ''Agathis'', commonly known as kauri or dammara, is a genus of 22 species of evergreen tree. The genus is part of the ancient conifer family Araucariaceae, a group once widespread during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, but now largely res ...

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