Higher Taxonomy
Common Name: CYPRESS FAMILY Habit: 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 pl, 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. Chromosomes: n=11. Genera In Family: 30 genera, 130+ species: +- worldwide, especially North America, Eurasia. Note: Incl (paraphyletic) Taxodiaceae. Taxa of (polyphyletic) Cupressus in TJM (1993) now in Callitropsis, Chamaecyparis, Hesperocyparis. eFlora Treatment Author: Jim A. Bartel, except as noted Scientific Editor: Thomas J. Rosatti.
| Common Name: WESTERN CYPRESS Habit: Large shrub, 1- or multi-trunked tree, often pyramidal in youth; monoecious. Stem: young shoots or branches generally cylindric (sometimes +- 4-angled or flat), generally in 3-dimensional clusters. Leaf: opposite, 4-ranked, of 1 kind, scale-like, closely appressed, overlapping. Pollen Cone: terminal, 2--6.5 mm, 1.3--3 mm diam, generally yellow. Seed Cone: 10--50 mm, woody, +- spheric to widely cylindric, maturing 2nd year, generally closed and attached beyond maturity (> 2 years); scales (4)6--12, peltate, abutting, shield- or wedge-shaped, projection generally > 1 mm especially 1st year, pointed, base level with or rising from edge. Seed: 60--150 per cone, flat, wings generally 2, vestigial; cotyledons generally 3--5. Chromosomes: 2n=22(23,24). Species In Genus: 16 species: western and central North America, Central America. Etymology: (Greek: western cypress) Reference: Adams & Bartel 2009 Phytologia 91:287--299; Adams et al. 2009 Phytologia 91:160--185; Little 2006 Syst Bot 31:461--480 Unabridged Reference: Bartel et al. 2003 Biochem Syst Ecol 31:693--702
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Hesperocyparis sargentii (Jeps.) Bartel
NATIVEHabit: Tree 6--20 m. Stem: bark fibrous, thick, gray or dark brown; ultimate branches 0.9--1.2 mm diam, cylindric to 4-sided. Leaf: dull, glaucous or not, dusty- to gray-green. Seed Cone: 15--25(30) mm, spheric, rough-surfaced, dull brown to gray, scales 6--10. Seed: 3--5.3 mm, +- glaucous, dark brown; attachment scar generally conspicuous. Ecology: Closed-cone-pine/cypress, yellow-pine forests, chaparral, on serpentine; Elevation: 60--1370 m. Bioregional Distribution: NCoR, SnFrB, SCoR; Distribution Outside California: reported from southwestern Oregon. Synonyms: Callitropsis sargentii (Jeps.) D.P. Little; Cupressus sargentii Jeps.; Cupressus sargentii Jeps. var. duttonii Jeps Jepson eFlora Author: Jim A. Bartel Reference: Adams & Bartel 2009 Phytologia 91:287--299; Adams et al. 2009 Phytologia 91:160--185; Little 2006 Syst Bot 31:461--480 Unabridged Reference: Bartel et al. 2003 Biochem Syst Ecol 31:693--702Jepson Online Interchange
Previous taxon: Hesperocyparis pygmaeaNext taxon: Hesperocyparis stephensonii
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Botanical illustration including Hesperocyparis sargentii |
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Citation for this treatment: Jim A. Bartel 2012, Hesperocyparis sargentii, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=89302, accessed on February 22, 2019.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2019, Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on February 22, 2019.
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Geographic subdivisions for Hesperocyparis sargentii:
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