English: Araucarians; Araucaria family.
Botany: 3 genera; 41 species; tall, large, evergreen trees; leaves small, needle-like, curved or large, broadly ovate, flattened, spirally arranged, persistent and usually have parallel venation.
Genera: Agathis, Araucaria, Wollemia.
TaxonomyAraucariaceae is a
Family in the Order
Pinales.
Araucariaceae were at maximum diversity in the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, distributed almost worldwide. At the end of the Cretaceous, when dinosaurs became extinct, so too did the
Araucariaceae in the northern hemisphere.
In the
Plant theory Araucariaceae is in
Pinales,
Pinidae.
Araucariaceae is placed in
Subphase 2.
IntroductionThey will feel they have to adapt to belief systems. They have a tendency to stay out of the attention of others to avoid being pressed and influenced. They feel they lack the strength to keep to their own belief system when exposed to that of others.