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Araucariaceae

Araucariaceae is a family of conifers with three living genera, Araucaria, Agathis, and Wollemia. While the family's native distribution is now largely confined to the Southern Hemisphere, except for a few species of Agathis in Malesia, it was formerly widespread in the Northern Hemisphere during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

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Araucariaceae is a family of conifer trees that includes three living genera and was once common across both hemispheres during the age of dinosaurs, though today it's found mainly in the Southern Hemisphere. These ancient trees matter because they represent a surviving lineage from Earth's prehistoric past and provide insights into how plant distribution has changed over millions of years.

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Species

Araucariaceae

FAMILY

KingdomPlantae
PhylumTracheophyta
ClassPinopsida
OrderPinales
FamilyAraucariaceae

Observations recorded58,894

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Research

180 papers

Phytochemistry, Chemotaxonomy, and Biological Activities of the Araucariaceae Family-A Review.ReviewPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Frezza C, Venditti A, De Vita D et al.DOI: 10.3390/plants9070888
The complete chloroplast genome of Araucaria cunninghamii (Araucariaceae).Mitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources · 2020Ping J, Luo X, Zhu M et al.DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1787265
Reproductive biology of the "Brazilian pine" (Araucaria angustifolia-Araucariaceae): the pollen tube growth and the seed cone development.Plant reproduction · 2024Kuhn SA, Nogueira FM, Schürer T et al.DOI: 10.1007/s00497-023-00473-8
First South American Agathis (Araucariaceae), Eocene of Patagonia.American journal of botany · 2014Wilf P, Escapa IH, Cúneo NR et al.DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1300327
Insect herbivore and fungal communities on Agathis (Araucariaceae) from the latest Cretaceous to Recent.PhytoKeys · 2023Donovan MP, Wilf P, Iglesias A et al.DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.226.99316
Somatic Embryogenesis in Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Kuntze (Araucariaceae).Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2016Guerra MP, Steiner N, Farias-Soares FL et al.DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-3061-6_24
Drought avoidance and vulnerability in the Australian Araucariaceae.Tree physiology · 2016Zimmer HC, Brodribb TJ, Delzon S et al.DOI: 10.1093/treephys/tpv111
Araucaria lefipanensis (Araucariaceae), a new species with dimorphic leaves from the Late Cretaceous of Patagonia, Argentina.American journal of botany · 2018Andruchow-Colombo A, Escapa IH, Cúneo NR et al.DOI: 10.1002/ajb2.1113

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Wikidata facts

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Commons category: Araucariaceae
taxon name: Araucariaceae
GRIN URL: npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomyfamily.aspx?id=89
taxon common name: 南洋杉科

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Article

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Contents

Description
Classification and genera
Phylogeny
Distribution and habitat
Uses
Fossil record
See also
References
Further reading

==Description== thumb|upright=0.9|right|Tāne Mahuta ("Lord of the Forest"), a massive [[Agathis australis tree from New Zealand]] Members of Araucariaceae are typically extremely tall evergreen trees, reaching heights of or more. They can also grow very large stem diameters; a New Zealand kauri tree (Agathis australis) named Tāne Mahuta ("The Lord of the Forest") has been measured at tall with a diameter at breast height of . Its total wood volume is calculated to be , making it the third-largest conifer after Sequoia and Sequoiadendron (both from the Cupressaceae subfamily Sequoioideae).