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Shrub, tree, generally evergreen; monoecious or dioecious.
Leaf: simple, cauline, alternate or opposite (either ± 4-ranked) or whorled in 3s (6-ranked), linear or scale-, awl- or needle-like (sometimes linear and awl-like on 1 plant, or on juvenile or injured plants), generally decurrent, covering young stems.
Pollen cone: axillary or terminal.
Seed cone: ± fleshy to generally woody, generally hard at maturity; scales opposite or whorled, peltate or not.
Seed: 1–many per scale, angled or lateral winged, generally wind-dispersed.
n=11.
30 genera, 130+ species: ± worldwide, especially North America, Eurasia. [Farjon 2005 Monogr Cupressaceae Sciadopitys. RBG, Kew] Incl (paraphyletic) Taxodiaceae. Taxa of (polyphyletic) Cupressus in TJM (1993) now in Callitropsis, Chamaecyparis, Hesperocyparis. —Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.

Key to Cupressaceae

Shrub, tree; generally dioecious.
Stem: bark thin, peeling in strips; young shoots 4-angled to cylindric.
Leaf: opposite (4-ranked) or whorled in 3s (6-ranked), scale-like to less often awl- or needle-like.
Pollen cone: generally terminal; pollen sacs 2–6 per scale.
Seed cone: generally terminal, 5–18 mm, ± spheric, ± fleshy, berry-like, glaucous or not, dry or resinous, generally maturing 2nd yr, surrounded at base by minute scale-like bracts; scales 3–8, fused, opposite or whorled in 3s.
Seed: 1–3 per cone, ± flat, unwinged, often not angled, generally animal-dispersed over 2 yrs; cotyledons 2–6.
67 species, 28 var.: n hemisphere except ne Africa. (Latin: juniper) [Adams & Nguyen 2007 Phytologia 89:43–57; Adams et al. 2006 Phytologia 88:299–309]
Unabridged references: [Adams 2004 Junipers of the World: The genus Juniperus. Trafford Publ., Vancouver]

Tree 8–20(30) m; generally dioecious.
Stem: bark red-brown.
Leaf: generally whorled in 3s, 6-ranked; closely appressed, scale-like.
Seed cone: 5–9 mm, blue-green maturing blue-black, resinous.
Seed: cotyledons 2–4.
2n=22. Exposed, dry, rocky slopes, flats, forest, pinyon/juniper woodland; 100–3100 m. High North Coast Ranges, High Sierra Nevada, San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, East of Sierra Nevada, Desert Mountains;

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