The Wollemi Pine, another living fossil?

Acta Horticulturae

Volumn 615, Issue , 2003, Pages 157-164

  Hill, Ken D ^a  

^a ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS AND DOMAIN TRUST   (Australia)

Author keywords

Araucariaceae; Araucarioides; Branching pattern; Cuticle micromorphology; Dilwynites; Epicuticular wax; Leaf morphology; Orthotropy; Plagiotropy; Pollen; Wollemia

Indexed keywords

EID: 57749181056     PISSN: 05677572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.17660/ActaHortic.2003.615.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (14)

1. Bigwood, A.J. and Hill, R.S. 1985. Tertiary araucarian macrofossils from Tasmania. Austral. J. Bot. 33:645-656.
2. Dettmann, M.E. and Jarzen, D.M. 2000. Pollen of extant Wollemia (Wollemi Pine) and comparisons with pollen of other extant and fossil Araucariaceae. p.187-203. In M.M. Harley, C.M. Morton and S. Blackmore (eds.), Pollen and Spores: Morphology and Biology. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
3. Hill, R.S. 1990. Araucaria (Araucariaceae) species from Australian Tertiary sediments-a micromorphological study. Austral. Syst. Bot. 3: 203-220.
4. Hill, R.S. and Bigwood, A.J. 1987. Tertiary gymnosperms from Tasmania: Araucariaceae. Alcheringa 11:325-335.
5. Jones, W.G., Hill, K.D. and Allen, J.M. 1995. Wollemia nobilis, a new living Australian genus and species in the Araucariaceae. Telopea 3:173-176.
6. Kerp, H. 1990. The study of fossil gymnosperms by means of cuticular analysis. Palaios 5: 548-569.
7. Macphail, M., Hill, K., Partridge, A., Truswell, E. and Foster, C. 1995. "Wollemi Pine"-old pollen records for a newly discovered genus of gymnosperm. Geology Today 11(2): 48-50.
8. Pole, M. 1995. Late Cretaceous macrofloras of eastern Otago, New Zealand: Gymnosperms. Austral. Syst. Bot. 8: 1067-1106.
9. Rothwell, G.W. and Mapes, G. 2001. Barthelia furcata gen. et sp. nov., with a review of Palaeozoic coniferophytes and a discussion on coniferophyte systematics. Int. J. Plant Sci. 162:637-667.
10. Stockey, R.A. and Atkinson, I.J. 1993. Cuticle micromorphology of Agathis Salisbury. Int. J. Plant Sci. 154:187-225.
11. Stockey, R.A. and Ko, H. 1986. Cuticle micromorphology of Araucaria de Jussieu. Bot. Gaz.147:508-548.
12. Stockey, R.A. and Taylor, T.N. 1978a. Scanning electron microscopy of epidermal patterns and cuticular structure in the genus Araucaria de Jussieu. Scanning Electron Microsc. 2:223-228.
13. Stockey, R.A. and Taylor, T.N. 1978b. Cuticular features and epidermal patterns in the genus Araucaria de Jussieu. Bot. Gaz. 139:490-498.
14. Stockey, R.A. and Taylor, T.N. 1981. Scanning electron microscopy of epidermal patterns and cuticular structure in the genus Agathis Salisbury. Scanning Electron Microsc. 3:207-212.