"Araucaria rulei dominating a shrubby maquis over ground with armour" (2).
Common Names
Rule araucaria (1).Taxonomic notes
Description
"A tree to 30 m tall, with a spider-like crown. Bark dark brown, exfoliating in thin strips or scaly. Juvenile branches distichous. Adult branchlets 2-2.5 cm. in diameter, in long whip-like cords. Juvenile leaves narrow, scale-like, incurved, sharply acute. Adult leaves scale-like, dark green, twisted, imbricate, lanceolate, midrib prominent, apex incurved, 2-2.5 cm. long by 1.1-1.4 cm. wide. Male cone cylindrical, 13 cm. long by 30 mm. wide, scales triangular, pollen sacs 15, microsporophylls triangular. Female cone to 12 cm. long by 8 cm. wide; bracts erect, triangular to 15 mm. long with a wide base. Seeds to 3 cm. long, nut with an elongated tip, wings ovate. Germination epigeal" (1).Range
New Caledonia: C and S areas, type near Presque de Bogota at 150-1150 m (1).Big Tree
Oldest
Dendrochronology
Ethnobotany
Observations
Remarks
Citations
(1) Silba 1986.(2) Schmid 1981.
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Last modified on 21-Dec-98