Araucaria Juss.
Distribution
Native to:
Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Chile Central, Chile South, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Norfolk Is., Paraguay, Queensland
Introduced into:
Ascension, Bangladesh, Comoros, Cook Is., Ethiopia, Great Britain, Mauritius, New Zealand North, Réunion, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tubuai Is.
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Altingia Jacob-Makoy in Nursery Cat. (L. Jacob-Makoy & Co.) 1836: 13 (1836)
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Columbea Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 8: 317 (1807)
- Dombeya Lam. in Encycl. 2: 301 (1786), nom. illeg.
- Eutacta Link in Linnaea 15: 543 (1842)
- Eutassa Salisb. in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 8: 316 (1807)
- Marywildea A.V.Bobrov & Melikyan in Komarovia 4: 57 (2006)
- Titanodendron A.V.Bobrov & Melikyan in Komarovia 4: 60 (2006)
Accepted Species
- Araucaria angustifolia (Bertol.) Kuntze
- Araucaria araucana (Molina) K.Koch
- Araucaria bernieri J.Buchholz
- Araucaria bidwillii Hook.
- Araucaria biramulata J.Buchholz
- Araucaria columnaris (G.Forst.) Hook.
- Araucaria cunninghamii Mudie
- Araucaria goroensis R.R.Mill & Ruhsam
- Araucaria heterophylla (Salisb.) Franco
- Araucaria humboldtensis J.Buchholz
- Araucaria hunsteinii K.Schum.
- Araucaria laubenfelsii Corbasson
- Araucaria luxurians (Brongn. & Gris) de Laub.
- Araucaria montana Brongn. & Gris
- Araucaria muelleri (Carrière) Brongn. & Gris
- Araucaria nemorosa de Laub.
- Araucaria rulei F.Muell.
- Araucaria schmidii de Laub.
- Araucaria scopulorum de Laub.
- Araucaria subulata Vieill.
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Farjon, A. (2010). A handbook of the world's Conifers 1: 1-526. BRILL, Leiden, Boston.
- Govaerts, R. (1995). World Checklist of Seed Plants 1(1, 2): 1-483, 1-529. MIM, Deurne.
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Sources
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images