The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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You should refer instead to the current version of The Plant List.

Cupressaceae

The family Cupressaceae is in the major group Gymnosperms (Conifers, cycads and allies).

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

Genera in Cupressaceae

A list of all accepted names in Cupressaceae is available in CSV format.

Statistics

Species of Cupressaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 23 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 1,054 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Cupressaceae. Of these 148 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 566 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Cupressaceae. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 1,054 species names for the family Cupressaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 148 14.0%
Synonym 838 79.5%
Unplaced 19 1.8%
Unassessed 49 4.6%

All names

The status of the 1,620 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Cupressaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 197 12.2%
Synonym 1,355 83.6%
Unplaced 19 1.2%
Unassessed 49 3.0%

Of these names,

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 1,054 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Cupressaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 135 718 0 0 853 80.9%
Medium confidence 3 41 0 0 44 4.2%
Low confidence 10 79 19 49 157 14.9%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the family Cupressaceae, are as follows:

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 3 44 0 23 0 70 6.6%
WCSP 145 794 19 11 1 970 92.0%
WCSP (in review) 0 0 0 15 0 15 1.4%