page_title: Araucaria
section_title: Classification and species list
hierarchical_section_title: Araucaria / Classification and species list
caption_attribution_description: English: Juvenile Araucaria sapling
context_page_description: Araucaria is a genus of evergreen coniferous trees in the family Araucariaceae. There are 20 extant species in New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, eastern Australia, New Guinea, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, and Paraguay.
context_section_description: There are four extant sections and two extinct sections in the genus, sometimes treated as separate genera. Genetic studies indicate that the extant members of the genus can be subdivided into two large clades – the first consisting of the sections Araucaria, Bunya, and Intermedia; and the second of the strongly monophyletic section Eutacta. Sections Eutacta and Bunya are both the oldest taxa of the genus, with Eutacta possibly older.
  Taxa marked with † are extinct.
  Section Araucaria. Leaves broad; cones more than 12 cm (4.7 in) diameter; seed germination hypogeal. Syn. sect. Columbea; sometimes includes Intermedia and Bunya
  Araucaria angustifolia – Paraná pine (obsolete: Brazilian pine, candelabra tree); southern and southeastern Brazil, northeastern Argentina.
  Araucaria araucana – monkey-puzzle or pehuén (obsolete: Chile pine); central Chile & western Argentina.
  †Araucaria nipponensis – Japan and Sakhalin (Upper Cretaceous)
  Section Bunya. Contains only one living species. Produces recalcitrant seeds with hypogeal (cryptocotylar) germination, though extinct species may have exhibited epigeal germination.
  Araucaria bidwillii – bunya-bunya; Eastern Australia
  †Araucaria brownii - England
  †Araucaria mirabilis – Patagonia (Middle Jurassic)
  †Araucaria sphaerocarpa - England (Middle Jurassic)
  Section Intermedia. Contains only one living species. Produces recalcitrant seeds
  Araucaria hunsteinii – klinki; New Guinea
  †Araucaria haastii - New Zealand (Cretaceous)
  Section Eutacta. Leaves narrow, awl-like; cones less than 12 cm (4.7 in) diameter; seed germination epigeal
  Araucaria bernieri – New Caledonia
  Araucaria biramulata – New Caledonia
  Araucaria columnaris – Cook pine; New Caledonia
  Araucaria cunninghamii – Moreton Bay pine, hoop pine; Eastern Australia, New Guinea
  Araucaria goroensis – New Caledonia
  Araucaria heterophylla – Norfolk Island pine; Norfolk Island
  Araucaria humboldtensis – New Caledonia
  Araucaria laubenfelsii – New Caledonia
  Araucaria luxurians – New Caledonia
  Araucaria montana – New Caledonia
  Araucaria muelleri – New Caledonia
  Araucaria nemorosa – New Caledonia
  Araucaria rulei – New Caledonia
  Araucaria schmidii – New Caledonia
  Araucaria scopulorum – New Caledonia
  Araucaria subulata – New Caledonia
  †Araucaria lignitici – (Paleogene) Yallourn, Victoria
  †Section Yezonia. Extinct. Contains only one species
  †Araucaria vulgaris – Japan (Late Cretaceous)
  †Section Perpendicula. Extinct. Contains only one species
  †Araucaria desmondii - New Zealand (Late Cretaceous)
  incertae sedis
  †Araucaria beipiaoensis
  †Araucaria fibrosa
  †Araucaria marensii – La Meseta Formation, Antarctica & Santa Cruz Formation, Argentina
  †Araucaria nihongii – Japan
  †Araucaria taieriensis - New Zealand 
  Araucaria bindrabunensis (previously classified under section Bunya) has been transferred to the genus Araucarites.
caption: A. columnaris sapling with distinctive apical bud.
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