Araucaria hunsteinii (Klinkii Pine

Araucaria hunsteinii (Klinkii Pine) is a species of Araucaria native to the mountains of PNG.

Araucaria hunsteinii (Klinkii ) mature leaf detail.Source

Wikipedia.

Araucaria hunsteinii (Klinkii)

mature trunk detail. .Source Wikipedia.

Grey Klinkii cone and male flowers. Source N. Howcroft.

Superb stem of Araucaria hunsteinii green klinkii pine Bulolo. Photo

credit Neville Howcroft.

Sawing klinkii log. CNGT Bulolo 1970. Source New

Horizons.

Klinkii is a very large evergreen tree (the tallest in New Guinea, and the tallest species in its family), growing to 50–80 metres (164–262 ft) tall, exceptionally to 90 metres (295 ft), with a trunk up to 3 metres (10 ft) diameter. The branches are horizontal, produced in whorls of five or six. The leaves are spirally arranged, scale-like or awl-like, 6–12 centimetres (2–5 in) long and 1.5–2 centimetres (5⁄8–3⁄4 in) broad at the base, with a sharp tip; leaves on young trees are shorter (under 9 centimetres (4 in)) and narrower (under 1.5 centimetres (5⁄8 in)). It is usually monoecious with male and female cones on the same tree; the pollen cones are long and slender, up to 20 centimetres (8 in) long and 1 centimetre (3⁄8 in) broad; the seed cones are oval, up to 25 centimetres (10 in) long and 14–16 centimetres (5+1⁄2–6+1⁄4 in) broad. The seed cones disintegrate at maturity to release the numerous 3–4 centimetres (1–1+1⁄2 in) long nut-like seeds.

Photographs from Neville Howcroft’s 2002 Paper presented at the Araucariaceae Symposium Auckland New Zealand March 2002 titled “Genetic Variation, Conservation and Silviculture of Klinkii Pine Araucaria hunsteinii in Papua New Guinea.

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Standing out tubed Klinkii Pine seedlings. Source. DOF 1968 Bulletin # 3. Notes of Wau-Bulolo Forest Activities.

High shade Bulolo nursey tubed Klinkii Pine seedlings. Source DOF 1971 Bulletin # 3. Notes of WauBulolo Forest Activities and New Horizons 1971.

Forest Station Offices /storerooms and nursery stand out beds. Photo credit Barry Gray.

Klinkii nursery stand out beds Bulolo. Source

PNGAA.

Klinkii Pine Plantation age 15 years. Source. DOF 1968 Bulletin # 3. Notes of Wau-Bulolo Forest Activities.

All flowering and seed production size Geshes seed orchard. Photo credit Neville Howcroft.

Grey klinkii Cone and male

flowers. Male flowers or catkins with ear ripe cone and blue grey leaves stock and hat for scale. Catkins can be longer. Photo credit Neville Howcroft.

First cone and seed crops of Garaina klinkii

grafts? Ron Woessner from Jari Amazon R Brazil with first collection. Most of this collection went to Jari but some made it to Porto Rico. Photo credit

Neville Howcroft.

Special seed collections from remote areas. Collecting klinkii cones and seed from Jimi

Valley. Photo credit Neville Howcroft.

Cleaning and processing seed at Bulolo. Photo credit Neville Howcroft.

Bulolo – Underplanting of P. patula as nurse crop with Garaina sourced klinkii pine in Divide Area. Later destroyed by wild fire. Photo credit Neville Howcroft.

Little is really known of klinkii pine. Neville Howcroft has shown that there are several different species/varieties.

Garaina klinkii two species left A klinkii left and right A hunsteinii bottom. Photo credit

N Howcroft 6/10/21. Here is the rediscovery of the Araucaria klinkii or grey klinkii on right A huntsteinii Left (Gerau and pai)

Two species of klinkii pine out of Garaina. NB Holotype of A klinkii comes from the Garaina area Klinkii vs hunsteinii. Photo credit Neville Howcroft 7/10/21.

Lake Kutubu hoop Kutubu and Pimaga hoop high altitude and heavy rainfall and cloud in this case maybe glaucous very distinct, gracile soft needles. Photo credit Neville Howcroft.

Garaina Terejeh bill cone samples. Large cones a green klinkii called Pai smaller cones Grey klinkii called Gerau. Photo credit Neville Howcroft.

Botanical samples Garaina 1972 of grey klinkii. Collected by N Howcroft and his seed collection from Garaina stands and identified as Araucaria klinkii. Photo credit Neville Howcroft.

Cone and male flowers of Araucaria hunsteinii var klinkii from Garaina referred often to as Grey Klinkii by Howcroft.

Photo credit N Howcroft.

There are three Garaina clones here in the Bulolo clonal orchard

Successful capture of 3 mother trees Garaina Klinkii greys.

Photo credit Neville Howcroft.

First crop from Garaina klinkii clones recorded. Photo credit Neville Howcroft.