Native to Argentina South, Chile Central, Chile South; introduced into Great Britain (source: POWO). Flora of the World documents 1 occurrence across 1 country.

Distribution

Distribution from Plants of the World Online (POWO). View the accepted name on POWO

Occurrences

84.0137

February 10, 2004

Location

United States, California, Alameda County (Berkeley, UC Berkeley Botanical Garden)

37.87544, -122.238724

Location Remarks

Strawberry Canyon, University of California campus, city of Berkeley

Collectors

No collectors specified

Classification

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Pinopsida

Order

Pinales

Family

Araucariaceae

Genus

Araucaria

Specific Epithet

araucana

Authorship

(Molina) K.Koch

Taxonomic Opinions

GBIF WFO POWO

Conservation (EDGE)

What is EDGE?

Evolutionary distinctiveness

Very high

ED 56.1

Among the most evolutionarily isolated plants known — losing it erases an irreplaceable branch of the plant tree of life.

EDGE List

Threat status

Endangered

IUCN Red List

EDGE score

26.8

Global rank

#8 of 1,090

Top 100 globally

This lineage appears to have diverged from its closest living relatives roughly 28 million years ago — a long, lonely branch of the plant tree of life.

Source: Gymnosperms EDGE assessment →