The Plant List — A working list for all plant species

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Cupressus

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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Cupressus

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name Status Confi­dence level Source
Cupressus abramsiana C.B.Wolf Accepted L WCSP
Cupressus arizonica Greene Accepted L WCSP
Cupressus bakeri Jeps. Accepted L WCSP
Cupressus cashmeriana Royle ex Carrière Accepted H WCSP
Cupressus chengiana S.Y.Hu Accepted H WCSP
Cupressus duclouxiana Hickel Accepted H WCSP
Cupressus dupreziana A.Camus Accepted H WCSP
Cupressus funebris Endl. Accepted H WCSP
Cupressus goveniana Gordon Accepted L WCSP
Cupressus guadalupensis S.Watson Accepted L WCSP
Cupressus lusitanica Mill. Accepted H WCSP
Cupressus macnabiana A.Murray bis Accepted L WCSP
Cupressus macrocarpa Hartw. Accepted H WCSP
Cupressus pakistanensis Silba Accepted H WCSP
Cupressus pygmaea (Lemmon) Sarg. Accepted L WCSP
Cupressus sargentii Jeps. Accepted H WCSP
Cupressus sempervirens L. Accepted H WCSP
Cupressus silbae B.Huang bis Accepted H WCSP
Cupressus torulosa D.Don Accepted H WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 153 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Cupressus. Of these 19 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 126 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Cupressus. 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 153 species names for the genus Cupressus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 19 12.4%
Synonym 113 73.9%
Unplaced 10 6.5%
Unassessed 11 7.2%

All names

The status of the 279 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Cupressus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 29 10.4%
Synonym 229 82.1%
Unplaced 10 3.6%
Unassessed 11 3.9%

Of these names,

The confidence with which the status of the 153 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Cupressus, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Total
High confidence 12 89 0 0 101 66.0%
Medium confidence 0 4 0 0 4 2.6%
Low confidence 7 20 10 11 48 31.4%

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

Source of record Accepted Synonym Unplaced Unassessed Misapplied Total
Tropicos 0 5 0 7 0 12 7.8%
WCSP 19 108 10 4 0 141 92.2%