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Actinostrobus
Athrotaxis
Austrocedrus
Callitris - Cypress-pine
Callitropsis - Cypress * (Cupressus)
Calocedrus - Incense-cedar
Chamaecyparis - Cypress
Cryptomeria - Sugi
Cunninghamia - Cunninghamia
Cupressus - Cypress
Diselma - Diselma
Fitzroya - Alerce
Fokienia - Fujian Cypress
Glyptostrobus - Chinese Swamp Cypress
Juniper50-55 species; see text. Junipers are coniferous plants in the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae. There are about 50-55 species of juniper, widely distributed throughout the northern hemisphere, from the arctic, south to tropical Africa ius - Juniper50-55 species; see text. Junipers are coniferous plants in the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae. There are about 50-55 species of juniper, widely distributed throughout the northern hemisphere, from the arctic, south to tropical Africa i
Libocedrus
MetasequoiaDawn Redwood : Plantae : Pinophyta :Pinopsida : Pinales : Cupressaceae Metasequoia glyptostroboides Binomial name Metasequoia glyptostroboides The Dawn Redwood Metasequoia glyptostroboides is a fast growing tree in the conifer family Cupressaceae native t - Dawn RedwoodDawn Redwood : Plantae : Pinophyta :Pinopsida : Pinales : Cupressaceae Metasequoia glyptostroboides Binomial name Metasequoia glyptostroboides The Dawn Redwood Metasequoia glyptostroboides is a fast growing tree in the conifer family Cupressaceae native t
Microbiota - Microbiota
Neocallitropsis
Papuacedrus * (Libocedrus)
PilgerodendronPilgerodendron uviferum : Plantae : Pinophyta : Pinopsida : Pinales : Cupressaceae : Callitroideae Pilgerodendron species Pilgerodendron uviferum Pilgerodendron uviferum is a species of conifer belonging to the Cypress family, Cupressaceae''. It is the on * (Libocedrus)
Platycladus - Chinese Arborvitae
Sequoia - Coast Redwood
Sequoiadendron - Giant Sequoia
Taiwania - Taiwania
Taxodium - Bald Cypress
Tetraclinis
Thuja - Thuja or Arborvitae
Thujopsis - Hiba
Widdringtonia
* - not accepted as distinct by all
authors, who include them within
the bracketed genus following
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The Cupressaceae or Cypress family is a conifer family of cosmopolitan distribution. The family includes 27 to 30 genera (17 monotypic) with about 130-140 species. They are monoecious or (rarely) dioecious trees and shrubs from 1-112m (3-367 ft) tall. The bark of mature trees is commonly orange- to red- brown and of stringy texture, often peeling in vertical strips, but smooth, scaly or hard and square-cracked in some species. The leaves are either spiral, decussate (opposite) or whorled, and more needle-like on young plants, or small and scale-like on mature plants of many (but not all) species. Most are evergreen, but three genera (Glyptostrobus, Metasequoia, Taxodium) are deciduous or include deciduous species. The cones are either woody, leathery, or (in Juniperus) berry-like and fleshy, with one to several ovules per scale. Seedlings usually have two cotyledons, but in some species up to six.
The family Cupressaceae is now widely regarded as including the Taxodiaceae, previously treated as a distinct family, but now shown not to differ from the Cupressaceae in any consistent characteristics. The one exception is the genus Sciadopitys, which is genetically distinct from the rest of the Cupressaceae, and is now treated in its own family, Sciadopityaceae.
Cupressaceae is the most widely distributed conifer family, with a near-global range in all continents except for Antarctica, stretching from 71°N in arctic Norway ( Juniperus communis) south to 55°S in southernmost Chile ( Pilgerodendron uviferum), while Juniperus pseudosabina reaches 5200 m altitude in Tibet, the highest altitude reported for any woody plant.
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