Taxon profile

genus

araucaria
Araucaria Juss.

kingdom Plantae - plants » divisio Pinophyta - conifers » class Pinopsida » order Pinales » family Araucariaceae

Type taxon:	Pinus araucana Molina
Temporal range:	Jurassic > Upper Jurassic > Oxfordian – recent

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Included taxa

Number of records: 32

species Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Kuntze - Parana Pine

species Araucaria araucana (Molina) K. Koch - Monkey-puzzle

species Araucaria bernieri Buchh.

species Araucaria bidwillii Hook. - Bunya

species Araucaria biramulata Buchh.

species Araucaria columnaris (G.Forst.) Hook. - Coral-reef Araucaria

species Araucaria cunninghamii Aiton ex D. Don - Moreton Bay Pine

species Araucaria goroensis R.R.Mill & Ruhsam

species Araucaria heterophylla (Salisb.) Franco - Norfolk Island Pine

species Araucaria humboldtensis Buchh.

species Araucaria hunsteinii Schumann - Klinki Pine

species Araucaria laubenfelsii Corbasson

species Araucaria luxurians (Brongn. & Gris) de Laub.

species Araucaria montana Brongn. & Gris

species Araucaria muelleri (Carrière) Brongn. & Gris

species Araucaria nemorosa de Laub.

species Araucaria rulei F. Muell.

species Araucaria schmidii de Laub.

species Araucaria scopulorum de Laub.

species Araucaria subulata Vieill.

Fossil taxa

species Araucaria beipiaoensis Zheng et al. 2008 ^†

species Araucaria brownii Stockey 1980 ^†

species Araucaria desmondii Pole ^†
Cretaceous: Cenomanian

species Araucaria famii Stockey et G.W.Rothwell ^†

species Araucaria fibrosa Césari, Marenssi et Santillana, 2009 ^†

species Araucaria fricii Velen. ex E.Bayer 1893 ^†
Cretaceous: Coniacian

species Araucaria lignitici Cookson & Duigan ^†

species Araucaria marensii Cantrill et Poole ^†

species Araucaria mirabilis (Speg.) Windhausen ^†
Jurassic: Oxfordian

species Araucaria sphaerocarpa Carruthers ^†

species Araucaria taieriensis Pole, 1995 ^†

species Araucaria vulgaris (Stopes & Fujii) T.Ohsawa, H.Nishida & M.Nishida ^†

Links and literature

PLANTS Database [ARAUC2]

PLANTS Database [http://plants.usda.gov]

Kew Science - Plants of the World online 2024-05 [30058753-2]

Kew Science - Plants of the World online [https://powo.science.kew.org], Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew [as Araucaria Juss.]
Data retrieved on: 1 February 2025

The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [1279808]

Rees, T. (compiler): The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera [https://www.irmng.org] [as Araucaria A.L. Jussieu, 1789]
Data retrieved on: 5 January 2020

Novikoff A., Barabasz-Krasny B. (2015): System of Embryophytes [https://phytomorphology.org/personal-inf...], Plant Systematics: 23-63. Liga-Pres [as Araucaria Juss.]
Data retrieved on: 2 January 2020

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