20.000 Agathis Salisb. - Kauri pines

Trees, massive, evergreen; branches usually whorled on young trees, irregular on mature tree; branchlets deciduous, leaving orbicular scars. Leaves spirally arranged on main branches, opposite or alternate on lateral branchlets; pinkish when young, finally dark green; leathery. Pollen cones axillary, solitary, upright, cylindric, hard, densely arranged. Seed cones globose or broadly ovoid; bracts densely arranged; apex thickened; seeds detached from bracts with a lateral wind on one side, the other side sometimes wing-like.

Worldwide: 21 species in Indonesia and Australia

Zimbabwe: 1 cultivated taxon.