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Cupressaceae

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Wikipedia Abstract

The Cupressaceae are a conifer family, the cypress family, with worldwide distribution. The family includes 27–30 genera (17 monotypic), which include the junipers and redwoods, with about 130–140 species in total. They are monoecious, subdioecious or (rarely) dioecious trees and shrubs 1–116 m (3 ft 3 in–380 ft 7 in) tall. The bark of mature trees is commonly orange- to red- brown and of stringy texture, often flaking or peeling in vertical strips, but smooth, scaly or hard and square-cracked in some species.
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Genus

Actinostrobus (cypress) (3)
Athrotaxidium (1)
Athrotaxis (7)   (1)
Austrocedrus (Chilean cedar) (2)
Austrohamia (2)
Austrosequoia (2)
Bungarbia (1)
Callitris (cypress-pine) (29)   (1)
Callitropsis (1)
Callitroxylon (1)
Calocedrus (incense cedar) (6)   (2)
Calycocarpus (1)
Campoxylon (1)
Cedrostrobus (1)
Ceratostrobus (1)
Chamaecyparioxylon (1)
Chamaecyparis (cedar) (9)   (1)
Chamaecyparites (1)
Closteroxylon (1)
Cryptomeria (Japanese cedar) (4)
Cryptomeriopsis (1)
Cunninghamia (cunninghamia) (4)   (1)
Cunninghamiostrobus (1)
Cunninghamites (5)
Cupressinanthus (1)
Cupressinites (5)
Cupressinocladus (2)
Cupressinoxylon (27)
Cupressistrobus (1)
Cupressocarpus (1)
Cupressoconus (1)
Cupressospermum (1)
Cupressus (cypress) (56)   (3)
Cyclopitys (3)
Cyparissidium (1)
Diceras (1)
Dichandrium (1)
Diselma (2)
Ditaxocladus (2)
Drumhellera (1)
Elatides (4)
Enormicutis (1)
Ephedropsis (1)
Farndalea (1)
Fitzroya (2)   (1)
Fokienia (2)
Geinitzia (5)
Glyptostrobus (Glyptostrobus) (5)   (1)
Hellia (1)
Hesperotropsis (3)
Heterocladiscos (1)
Heteroxylon (1)
Inolepis (1)
Juniperoxylon (1)
Juniperus (juniper) (106)   (9)   (1)
Laechhardtia (1)
Libocedrus (19)   (2)
Melitoxylon (1)
Mesocyparis (1)
Metacupressinoxylon (1)
Metasequioa (1)
Metasequoia (dawn redwood) (2)   (1)
Microbiota (1)
Monarophyllum (1)
Mpyodes (1)
Neocallitropsis (1)   (1)
Ommatoxylon (1)
Palaeocallitroxylon (1)
Palaeocyparis (1)
Palaeoxylon (1)
Papuacedrus (2)
Pararaucaria (2)
Parasequoia (1)
Parataxodium (1)
Pilgerodendron (1)
Platycladus (platycladus) (1)
Protaxodioxylon (1)
Protocupressinoxylon (2)
Protosequoia (1)
Pseudotaxodioxylon (1)
Retinospora (2)
Sequodium (1)
Sequoia (redwood) (41)   (1)
Sequoiadendron (Sequoiadendron) (2)   (1)
Sequoites (1)
Sewardiodendron (1)
Spiroxylon (2)
Stachyura (1)
Steinhauera (1)
Striaestrobus (1)
Taiwania (Taiwania) (2)
Taxodiomeria (1)
Taxodioxylon (4)
Taxodium (bald cypress) (16)
Tetraclinis (Sictus tree) (1)
Tetraclinoxylon (1)
Thuites (4)
Thuja (Arborvitae) (31)   (1)
Thujadendron (1)
Thujatostrobus (1)
Thujopsis (3)
Thujoxylon (1)
Thyia (1)
Tollia (1)
Tricranolepis (1)
Widdringtonia (5)   (2)
Widdringtonites (6)
Widdringtonoxylon (1)
Xanthocyparis (2)   (1)

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External References

Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0