What is "agathis"

Dammara \Dam"ma*ra\, n. (Bot.) A large tree of the order Conifer[ae], indigenous to the East Indies and Australasia; -- called also Agathis. There are several species.

Agathis, commonly known as kauri or dammar, is a relatively small genus of 22 species of evergreen tree. The genus is part of the ancient Araucariaceae family of conifers, a group once widespread during the Jurassic period, but now largely restricted to the Southern Hemisphere except for a number of extant Malesian Agathis.

Agathis may refer to:

• Agathis, a genus of evergreen trees
• Agathis, a genus of ichneumonoid wasps from the braconid family Braconidae