Hoop Pine (species: Araucaria cunninghamii) in taxonomy (Lizard Island Field Guide)
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Araucaria cunninghamii
Hoop Pine


©Snow and Renie Amos: Araucaria cunninghamii up to about 6 m high at Lizard Island. MacGillivray Reef is in the background.

©Snow and Renie Amos: Araucaria cunninghamii at Lizard Island.

©Snow and Renie Amos: There were many small Araucaria cunninghamii trees around the larger ones at Lizard Island in Nov 2019.

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Kingdom Plantae
Division Tracheophyta
Class Pinopsida
Order Pinales
Family Araucariaceae
Genus Araucaria
Species Araucaria cunninghamii

Lizard Island area: all known taxa
Lizard Island Field Guide

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Distinguishing features

This is the only pine tree known from Lizard Island. It occurs in a single grove comprising some tens of trees at the base of a steep slope on the eastern side of Cook's Look. Trees up to 12 m high were recorded in the 1980s (ALA accessed 24 Sep 2019) but in Nov 2019, the tallest were only about 6 m and there were many small ones (Snow Amos).

Size

  • Up to 12000 cm (height recorded in 1987 by Fisher, ALA accessed 24 Sep 2019)

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