Cupressus

Cupressus
Cupressus sempervirens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Order: Cupressales
Family: Cupressaceae
Subfamily: Cupressoideae
Genus: Cupressus
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Type species
Cupressus sempervirens
Species

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Synonyms
  • Callitropsis Oersted 1864 non Compton
  • Hesperocyparis Bartel & Price
  • Neocupressus de Laubenfels
  • Platycyparis Bobrov & Melikian
  • Tassilicyparis Bobrov & Melikian
  • Xanthocyparis Farjon & Nguyên
  • ×Cupressocyparis Dallimore 1937
  • ×Cuprocyparis Farjon 2002
  • ×Neocupropsis de Laubenfels 2009
  • ×Hesperotropsis Garland & Gerry Moore

Cupressus is one of several genera of evergreen conifers within the family Cupressaceae that have the common name cypress; for the others, see cypress. It is considered a polyphyletic group. Based on genetic and morphological analysis, the genus Cupressus is found in the subfamily Cupressoideae.[1][2] The common name "cypress" comes via the Old French cipres from the Latin cyparissus, which is the latinisation of the Greek κυπάρισσος (kypárissos).[3]

  1. ^ Farjon, A. (2005). Monograph of Cupressaceae and Sciadopitys. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. ISBN 1-84246-068-4.
  2. ^ Gadek, P. A., Alpers, D. L., Heslewood, M. M., & Quinn, C. J. (2000). Relationships within Cupressaceae sensu lato: a combined morphological and molecular approach. American Journal of Botany 87: 1044–1057)
  3. ^ κυπάρισσος, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus Digital Library

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