Common Names - Wollemia Pine | Synonyms - None |
Authority - W.G. Jones, K. Hill, J.M. Allen | Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? Gymnosperm |
Plant forms - Grows as a tree height of 40 metres in its natural habitat with a trunk diameter of over one metre | Total Number of species - 1 |
World Distribution - Australia |
Comments - RARE! ALMOST EXTINCT! THOUGHT EXTINCT TILL 1994!
The Australian species Wollemia nobilis is the sole species in the genus Wollemia and was discovered in 1994 in a remote series of narrow, steep-sided sandstone gorges near Lithgow in temperate rainforest wilderness area of the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales, 150 kilometres north-west of Sydney.
Has wood. Too rare to be used as a lumber tree
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