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Araucaria cunninghamii Mudie
Family Araucariaceae
Common name: hoop pine

Araucaria cunninghamii Mudie APNI*

Description: Tree to 50 m high with stem to 1.5 m diam.; bark dark greyish brown, horizontally wrinkled; leaves clustered at the end of branches.

Leaves curved, keeled, ± erect, mostly 0.5–1 cm long, loosely imbricate; juvenile leaves needle-like, flattened, mostly 1–2 cm long, ± at right angles to the branches.

Male cones cylindrical, to 5 cm long, terminal, solitary. Female cones ovoid, c. 10 cm long on long peduncles, the cone scales samara-like, thinly winged, indehiscent, the seed retained on the scale at shedding; cones green, turning brown at maturity, seeds shed in summer.


Illustration
M. Flockton

Habitat
Photo T.M. Tame

Habit
Photo D. Hardin

Other photo
Photo T.M. Tame

Herbarium
Sheet

Distribution and occurrence: in warmer rainforest, often as emergents; north from Nambucca R.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Only var. cunninghamii occurs in Australia, var. papuana is confined to New Guinea. K.L. Gibbons, 21 Jan. 2021.

Text by G. J. Harden
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 1 (1990)

One variety in NSW: Araucaria cunninghamii var. cunninghamii

APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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