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Agathis atropurpurea
Also called Blue Kauri Pine, Black Kauri, Black Kauri Pine
Agathis atropurpurea, commonly known as the blue kauri, and occasionally as the black kauri or purple kauri, is a species of conifer in the family Araucariaceae. The family was distributed almost worldwide during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, and is now mostly confined to the Southern Hemisphere. This species is endemic to a small part of northeastern Queensland, Australia.
The range of Agathis atropurpurea is confined to a number of small fragmented populations within the Wet Tropics of Queensland, specifically to the cloudy, high elevation, simple microphyll vine-fern forests that occur on the granite massifs north and south of Cairns. These are areas of high rainfall—more than 2,000 mm (79 in) per year—at elevations from 700 m (2,300 ft) to 1,600 m (5,200 ft), and include places such as Mount Pieter Botte, Mount Lewis National Park, the Lamb Range, the Bellenden Ker Range, and the high ranges of the western Atherton Tableland.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Agathis atropurpurea by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
