Araucaria
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Description
Monoecious or sometimes (temporarily?) dioecious small to immense trees mostly with limited and very formal branching elements consisting of long sweeping primary branches in false whorls along the main trunk often turned apically upward candelabra-like, then in most species only one additional rank of branches.
Leaves spirally placed, broadly attached, crowded, multi-veined when broad and even sometimes in the needle-shaped examples, becoming uniform in size along a branch, but sometimes quite variable in the juvenile forms, amphistomatic.
Seed coat fused with its scale.
Distribution
Asia-Tropical: New Guinea present, New Caledonia present, Norfolk Island present, S. & Central Chile present, Southern Brazil present, coastal Queensland present
Across New Guinea, coastal Queensland, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, S. & Central Chile, and southern Brazil 19 spp. in two sections. .
Citation
DALLIMORE & JACKSON 1923: Handb. Conif.: 150
STEUD. 1840 – In: Nom. Bot. éd.: 399
DE LAUB. 1972 – In: Fl. NOUV. Caléd. et Dép.: 80
SEWARD & FORD 1906 – In: Trans. R. Soc. Lond.: 317
GORDON 1858: Pinetum, ed. 1: 21
RICHARD 1826: Comm. Bot. Conif. & Cycad.: 153
PILGER 1926 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam., ed. 2, 13: 263
JUSS. 1857 – In: Man. Pl.: 360
LINK 1841 – In: Linnaea: 541
BARSALI 1909 – In: Atti Soc. Tosc. Sci. Nat.: 145
JUSS. 1847: Syn. Conif.: 184
CARR. 1855: Traité Gén. Conif.: 413
HENKEL & HOCHSTETTER 1865: Synop. Nadelhölz.: 2
GAUSSEN 1970 – In: Gymn. Act. & Foss.: 7
PARL. 1868 – In: DC., Prod. 16: 369
D.DON 1841 – In: Trans. Linn. Soc.: 163
BENTH. & HOOK. 1880 – In: Gen. Pl.: 423
ENDL. 1842: Gen. Pl.: 26
SILBA 1986 – In: Phytologia Mem.: 38
EICHLER 1889 – In: E. & P., Nat. Pfl. Fam. 2: 67