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Wollemia nobilis W.G.Jones et al.

Wollemi Pine, Wollemi-pine, Wóilemie

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Summary

Wollemia nobilis is a species of coniferous tree in the family Araucariaceae. It is the single known species in the monotypic genus Wollemia. The species represents one of only three living genera in the family, alongside Araucaria and Agathis, which was discovered in 1994 in a temperate rainforest wilderness area of the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales. It was growing in a remote series of narrow, steep-sided, sandstone gorges 150 km (93 mi) north-west of Sydney. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Wollemia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Wollemia

Wollemia nobilis is a species of coniferous tree in the family Araucariaceae. It is the single known species in the monotypic genus Wollemia. The species represents one of only three living genera in the family, alongside Araucaria and Agathis, which was discovered in 1994 in a temperate rainforest wilderness area of the Wollemi National Park in New South Wales. More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Wollemia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Araucariaceae
Described by
W.G.Jones et al.
Native to
New South Wales
Wild records
6 in range· 6 open

At a glance

Warmest month
27°C
Jan, mean day; nights 15 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
704mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Nov 71 mm (CHELSA)
Light
14–46DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (February to August and December in the northern hemisphere). Habitat rain 704 mm a year, wettest November at 71 mm, driest April at 43 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 14 to 46 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -1.7 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: no season, 70% of the rain takes 8 months (February to August and December in the northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads no season: 70% of the year's rain (505 mm of 704 mm) takes 8 months, August to February and June. Mean temperature moves 14.3 °C between the warmest and coldest month. Months are the habitat's, southern hemisphere; shifted six months for a northern-hemisphere collection: February to August and December.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 704 mm a year, wettest November at 71 mm, driest April at 43 mm (habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

704 mm a year at the habitat, 505 mm of it August to February and June. Wettest month November at 71 mm, driest April at 43 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 651 mm to 958 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, southern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 14 to 46 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 14 to 46 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 13, the highest 90th-percentile month 48).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -1.7 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -1.7 °C, the absolute minimum -4.7 °C, about 17 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 35.7 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 3.1 °C in July (across the envelope cells 1.4 °C to 6.2 °C), warmest day 27.3 °C in January (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -1.7 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 55 to 64% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 11 °C in Jul to 27 °C in Jan; mean night from 3 °C in Jul to 15 °C in Jan. The cold quarter, Jun to Aug, is the three months around the coldest night. 704 mm of rain a year, most in Nov. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 6 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -4.7 °C and the 99th-percentile day 35.7 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-10°10°20°30°40°frost35.7° 99th-percentile day (undated)-4.7° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075100125150mm rainDLI 14–46RH 55–64 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 6 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C27 / 25–2926 / 24–2824 / 22–2620 / 18–2215 / 14–1812 / 11–1511 / 10–1413 / 12–1616 / 15–2019 / 18–2322 / 21–2525 / 24–27
Night °C15 / 14–1815 / 14–1813 / 11–1610 / 8–137 / 5–104 / 3–83 / 1–64 / 2–76 / 4–108 / 7–1211 / 10–1513 / 12–17
Rain mm60 / 46–8962 / 45–12748 / 43–9643 / 40–8852 / 43–7264 / 52–7856 / 50–7360 / 45–7457 / 47–6263 / 58–7571 / 59–9368 / 55–89
DLI46 / 40–4840 / 35–4234 / 29–3525 / 23–2618 / 16–1914 / 13–1616 / 14–1822 / 20–2430 / 28–3238 / 36–3943 / 39–4446 / 42–48
RH %55 / 52–6057 / 54–6257 / 55–6259 / 58–6162 / 59–6364 / 60–6562 / 59–6560 / 56–6258 / 55–6057 / 55–5857 / 54–5855 / 53–58

Each figure is the median across the 6 grid cells holding the 6 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 2474:6606 (-33.725, 150.325). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -4.7 °C, 1st-percentile night -1.7 °C, 99th-percentile day 35.7 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 6 distinct grid cells holding the 6 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 2474:6606 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell -33.50_150.625, lapse-corrected +449 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 779 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeNew South Wales
Kew's description“tree” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker-33.73, 150.31 · in the densest population, 3 records (50% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 6 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 34 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. Under a dozen records: treat the map and the climate as indicative.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 6 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: no rights reserved · CC0; chaos_fungoriun, CC0, iNaturalist via GBIF (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Wollemia nobilis, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Wollemia nobilis, a new living Australian genus and species in the Araucariaceae
Wyn A. Jones, Kenneth Hill, Jan Allen (1995) · Telopea
Pestalotiopsis guepinii , a Taxol-producing Endophyte of the Wollemi Pine, Wollemia nobilis
Gary A. Strobel, W. M. Hess, Jiayao Li, Eugene Ford (1998) · Australian Journal of Botany
Gymnosperms on the EDGE
Félix Forest, Justin Moat, Elisabeth Baloch, Neil Brummitt (2018) · Scientific Reports
Some Morphological Features of Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis: Araucariaceae) and Their Comparison to Cretaceous Plant Fossils
TC Chambers, Andrew N. Drinnan, Stephen McLoughlin (1998) · International Journal of Plant Sciences
The steam volatile oil of Wollemia nobilis and its comparison with other members of the Araucariaceae (Agathis and Araucaria)
Joseph J. Brophy, Robert J. Goldsack, Michael Z Wu, Christopher J. R. Fookes (2000) · Biochemical Systematics and Ecology
Achieving practical outcomes from genetic studies of rare Australian plants
Patricia M. Hogbin, Rod Peakall, Marita Anne Sydes (2000) · Australian Journal of Botany
Identification of selected CITES-protected Araucariaceae using DART TOFMS
Philip D. Evans, Ignacio A. Mundo, Michael C. Wiemann, Gabriela Chavarría (2017) · IAWA Journal - KU Leuven/IAWA Journal

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 23 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.