All books
Entries
Pick a letter, or find an entry by name.
Araucariaceae
3-552.12.00English: Araucarians; Araucaria family.
Genera: Agathis, Araucaria, Wollemia; 41 species.BotanyTrees; tall, large; evergreen.
Leaves: small, needle-like; curved or large, broadly ovate, flattened, spirally arranged, persistent; usually parallel venation; monoecious or dioecious; cotyledons 2–4.
Pollen: broad to acicular pollen not saccate.
Seed cones: large, disintegrate.TaxonomyAraucariaceae is a Family in the Order Pinales.
Araucariaceae were at maximum diversity in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, distributed almost worldwide. At the end of the Cretaceous, when dinosaurs became extinct, so too did the Araucariaceae in the northern hemisphere.
In the Plant theory Araucariaceae is in Pinales, Pinidae. Araucariaceae is placed in Subphase 2.
Genera: Agathis, Araucaria, Wollemia; 41 species.BotanyTrees; tall, large; evergreen.
Leaves: small, needle-like; curved or large, broadly ovate, flattened, spirally arranged, persistent; usually parallel venation; monoecious or dioecious; cotyledons 2–4.
Pollen: broad to acicular pollen not saccate.
Seed cones: large, disintegrate.TaxonomyAraucariaceae is a Family in the Order Pinales.
Araucariaceae were at maximum diversity in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, distributed almost worldwide. At the end of the Cretaceous, when dinosaurs became extinct, so too did the Araucariaceae in the northern hemisphere.
In the Plant theory Araucariaceae is in Pinales, Pinidae. Araucariaceae is placed in Subphase 2.