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Agathis robusta (Queensland kauri)

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Gymnospermae > Coniferophyta > Araucariaceae > Genus: Agathis

Large Agathis robusta tree in Arderne Gardens, Claremont, Cape Town. [photo H. Robertson, Iziko ©]

Native to Queensland, Australia, where it grows mainly in dry marginal rainforest on Fraser Island and in southern Queensland between Tewantin and Maryborough.

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