  Range of Agathis endertii (2). Adapted from a map by  www.expediamaps.com | Agathis endertii Meijer Drees 1940Common NamesBulok [Iban] (2).Taxonomic notesDescriptionTree. Bark purplish grey-brown. Juvenile leaves large, oval, acute. Adult leaves oval, narrowing at the base to a short petiole to 5 mm long, narrowing at the other end to a bluntly acute apex, 5-9 cm long by 2-3 cm wide, not glaucous below, resin canals isolated. Male cones cylindrical, 3-4 cm long by 2-3 cm wide, rounded at the apex, narrowing to a sessile base; microsporophylls with a semicircular margin. Young female cone oval, dominated by spreading or reflexed lips of individual scales. Mature female cone oval, to 6 cm long; scales roughly triangular but well rounded at the upper corners, with a prominent triangular-rounded lip protruding from the upper margin. Seed obovoid, 10 mm long by 8 mm wide (1).RangeBorneo (Indonesia, Brunei and Malaysia): "[i]n more or less isolated populations from near sea-level to 1440 m, often associated with sandstone kerangas" (2).Big TreeCommonly 64 m tall, 1 m in girth (1).OldestDendrochronologyEthnobotanyObservationsRemarksThis species is listed as "LR/nt" (lower risk, near threatened) on the World Conservation Monitoring Centre - Trees database, which adds: "Although the species is widespread, it occurs in isolated populations in moist lowland forest associated with sandstone kerangas. The timber is heavily exploited."Citations(1) Silba 1986.(2) Laubenfels 1988. |
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