Wollemi Pine
2. Phylum
Classification
3. Class
- Belongs to Pinophyta Phylum
- Conifer
- Largest species are pines (over 100 species)
- Needle-like leaves
- Cones of males and females
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Pinales
Family: Araucariaceae
Genus: Wollemia
Species: Wollemia nobilis
- In the Class, Pinopsida
- Has small simple leaves
- Growth conducted by the stem and root
What is the Wollemia Pine?
1. Kingdom
- Also known as the Wollemia Nobilisis
- Type of coniferous tree
- Is an Australian species
- In Plantae Kingdom
- Contains ferns, conifers, liverworts, mosses, flowering plants and others.
5. Family
4. Order
- Araucariaceae Family
- Tall, evergreen trees
- Spiral like shape
- Narrow or broad leaves, usually with parallel veins
6. Genus & Species
- One of the worlds oldest and rarest trees
- The Araucariaceae Family is around 200 million years old (dates back to time of dinosaurs)
- They are an endangered species (less than 100 trees left)
- The Wollemi Pine was thought to be extinct, until 1994.
- Base is made up of 100 different sized stems
- Can grow up to 40 metres
- In the Order: Pinales
- Reproductive structure (also known as a cone)
- Cones grown on same tree
- Genus is Wollemia
- Genus of Species is Wollemia Nobilisis (scientific name)
- Also known as Wollemia Pine