Calocedrus

Incense-cedar
Calocedrus decurrens
California incense cedar
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Cupressales
Family: Cupressaceae
Subfamily: Cupressoideae
Genus: Calocedrus
Kurz
Type species
Calocedrus macrolepis
Synonyms[1]

Heyderia K.Koch 1873 non Link 1833

California incense cedar, in Lassen Volcanic National Park

Calocedrus, the incense cedar (alternatively spelled incense-cedar), is a genus of coniferous trees in the cypress family Cupressaceae first described as a genus in 1873.[2][3] Three species are native to eastern Asia and one to western North America.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Calocedrus". World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  2. ^ Kurz, Wilhelm Sulpiz (1873). "On a few new plants from Yunan". Journal of Botany, British and Foreign. 11: 196. OCLC 1642195.
  3. ^ "Calocedrus Kurz". Tropicos. Missouri Botanical Garden.

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