Distribution map (redrawn from de Laubenfels 1972).

Common Names

Bernier's araucaria (Silba 1986).

Taxonomic notes

Description

"A narrowly columnar tree. Bark grey, exfoliating in thin strips. Branchlets in one plane, forming a wide U-like pattern, 4-6 mm in diameter. Juvenile leaves triangular, needle-like, apex sharply acute, to 7 mm long, relatively thick. Adult leaves scale-like, imbricate, triangular, keeled, 2-3.5 mm long by 1.5-2.5 mm wide, apex incurved. Male cone bluish-white, cylindrical, 40-90 mm long by 8-16 mm wide, scales lanceolate, microsporophylls triangular, pollen sacs 4-6. Female cone prominently glaucous, to 10 cm. long by 7.5-8 cm. wide, recurved lip of scale raised, bracts to 5 mm. long. Seeds to 3 cm. long, nuts ovate, wings broadly rounded. Germination epigeal" (Silba 1986).

Range

New Caledonia: Poum, and from Canala to Plaine des Lacs, 0-700 m (Silba 1986).

Big Tree

Commonly 40-50 m tall (Silba 1986).

Oldest

Dendrochronology

Ethnobotany

Observations

Remarks

See Also

This page is from the Gymnosperm Database
URL: http://www.conifers.org/ar/ar/bernieri.html
Edited by Christopher J. Earle
Last modified on 2007.05.30