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| Jepson eFlora: Taxon page
Key to families | Table of families and genera |
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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.
Tree, generally widely conic; monoecious.
Stem: young shoots flat, in flat clusters.
Leaf: opposite, 4-ranked, appearing whorled in 4s, scale-like, closely appressed, overlapping, exposed part longer than wide; leaf bases elongated on smallest shoots.
Seed cone: ± pendent, woody, ± oblong, maturing 1st yr; scales in 3 partially overlapping pairs, middle pair fertile, free, ± spreading, distal pair united, sterile.
Seed: 2 per fertile scale, flat, wings 2, unequal; cotyledons 2.
3 species: w North America, e Asia. (Greek: beautiful cedar)
Previous taxon: Callitropsis nootkatensis
Next taxon: Calocedrus decurrens
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) [year] Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/IJM.html [accessed on month, day, year]
Citation for an individual treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] [year]. [Taxon name] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, [URL for treatment]. Accessed on [month, day, year].
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