Araucaria bidwillii
Hook. · speciesAt a glance
Sources15 archives
Databases and archives Araucaria bidwillii's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation15 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility1 669 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI9 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics11 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
dukesphytochemcompounds
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Araucaria bidwillii, commonly known as the bunya pine and sometimes referred to as the false monkey puzzle tree, is a large evergreen coniferous tree in the plant family Araucariaceae. It is found naturally in south-east Queensland Australia and two small disjunct populations in north eastern Queensland's World Heritage listed Wet Tropics. There are many old planted specimens in New South Wales, and around the Perth, Western Australia metropolitan area. They can grow up to 30-45 m. The tallest presently living is one in Bunya Mountains National Park, Queensland which was reported by Robert Van Pelt in January 2003 to be 169 ft in height. The bunya pine is the last surviving species of the Section Bunya of the genus Araucaria. This section was diverse and widespread during the Mesozoic with some species having cone morphology similar to A. bidwillii, which appeared during the Jurassic. Fossils of Section Bunya are found in South America and Europe. The scientific name honours the botanist John Carne Bidwill, who came across it in 1842 and sent the first specimens to Sir William Hooker in the following year.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology20
Life cycle & reproduction10
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment12
Physiology & chemistry5
Other traits1
Compounds documented for Araucaria bidwillii across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds100 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| TANNIN | 7,000 ppm | DukesPhytochem |
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Araucaria bidwillii has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
The complete instruction manual Araucaria bidwillii carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 262×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants
n 131×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl
diploid1×GoaT · Kew Plant DNA C-values Database
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type1 669 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions66 of 102 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Mount Annan, AU | 185 |
| Brisbane, AU | 29 |
| Auckland, NZ | 27 |
| Smithfield, AU | 21 |
| Canberra, AU | 17 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 13 |
| Christchurch, NZ | 10 |
| Bronx, US | 9 |
| Armidale, AU | 9 |
| Rotorua, NZ | 8 |
| Paris, FR | 7 |
| San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record | 6 |
| Canadian Department of Agriculturelocation not on record | 5 |
| Durban, ZA | 5 |
| Tampa, US | 5 |
| Kew, GB | 5 |
| Santa Barbara, US | 5 |
| Durango, MX | 5 |
| Universidad de Caldas (UCaldas)location not on record | 5 |
| Florida Museum of Natural History- Zoology, Paleontology & Paleobotanylocation not on record | 5 |
| Saint Louis, US | 4 |
| València, ES | 4 |
| Taipei, TW | 4 |
| Natural History Museum, Tribhuvan Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| Northridge, US | 3 |
| US | 3 |
| MAlocation not on record | 3 |
| ASUlocation not on record | 3 |
| Lake Charles, US | 3 |
| Antiguo Cuscatlán, SV | 3 |
| Beijing, CN | 3 |
| Davis, US | 3 |
| Hobart, AU | 2 |
| San Francisco, US | 2 |
| University of Alberta Museumslocation not on record | 2 |
| Adelaide, AU | 2 |
| San Luis Obispo, US | 2 |
| DOI/NPS, Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 2 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 2 |
| Bloomington, US | 2 |
| Beijing, CN | 2 |
| San Diego, US | 2 |
| Berlin, DE | 2 |
| Porto Alegre, BR | 2 |
| Santiago de Compostela, ES | 2 |
| Chapingo, MX | 2 |
| Long Beach, US | 2 |
| PUC-RSlocation not on record | 2 |
| Vancouver, CA | 2 |
| Londrina, BR | 1 |
| Museo naturalistico del Frignano Ferruccio Minghellilocation not on record | 1 |
| Ivano-Frankivsk, UA | 1 |
| Campo Mourão, BR | 1 |
| Provo, US | 1 |
| Denver, US | 1 |
| Miami, US | 1 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 1 |
| Tsukuba, JP | 1 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 1 |
| Chapel Hill, US | 1 |
| Nanjing, CN | 1 |
| Columbia, US | 1 |
| FFPRIlocation not on record | 1 |
| Yaoundé, CM | 1 |
| NSW Dept of Planning, Industry and Environmentlocation not on record | 1 |
| Clemson, US | 1 |
| John T. Waterhouse Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| CASlocation not on record | 1 |
| Sanda, JP | 1 |
| Pullman, US | 1 |
| North Carolina Zoological Parklocation not on record | 1 |
| Corrientes, AR | 1 |
| CPATSAlocation not on record | 1 |
| LDlocation not on record | 1 |
| US | 1 |
| Universidad de El Salvadorlocation not on record | 1 |
| Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS)location not on record | 1 |
| Universidad del Quindío (UniQuindío)location not on record | 1 |
| Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Queensland Herbariumlocation not on record | 1 |
| MEXUlocation not on record | 1 |
| Vitoria, ES | 1 |
| Turlock, US | 1 |
| Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas, Universidad Veracruzana, Región Xalapalocation not on record | 1 |
| Alexandria Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Pondicherry, IN | 1 |
| TAFORI-LSRClocation not on record | 1 |
| Honolulu, US | 1 |
| Mexico City, MX | 1 |
| University of Silesia in Katowicelocation not on record | 1 |
| Museo de Historia Natural de El Salvadorlocation not on record | 1 |
| BISHlocation not on record | 1 |
| Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record | 1 |
| Córdoba, AR | 1 |
| Ann Arbor, US | 1 |
| Riverside, US | 1 |
| Wollongong, AU | 1 |
| Nagasaki University - Fisherieslocation not on record | 1 |
| Mexico City, MX | 1 |
| Flagstaff, US | 1 |
| GAlocation not on record | 1 |
| UTFPR-CPlocation not on record | 1 |
| Parkville, AU | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Araucaria bidwillii was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.