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The Plant List
- Gymnosperms
  - Cupressaceae

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

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A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Cupressaceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Cupressaceae contained within The Plant List belong to 32 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 1,203 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Cupressaceae. Of these 166 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 912 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 1,203 species names for the family Cupressaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	166	13.8%
◕	Synonym	991	82.4%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	46	3.8%

All names

The status of the 2,115 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Cupressaceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	208	9.8%
◕	Synonym	1,858	87.8%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	49	2.3%

Of the species names,

52 are recorded as invalid
71 are recorded as illegitimate
4 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 2 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 1,203 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Cupressaceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	157	916	0	1,073	89.2%
Medium confidence	8	38	0	46	3.8%
Low confidence	1	37	46	84	7.0%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Cupressaceae is as follows:

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	8	38	23	0	69	5.7%
WCSP	158	953	22	2	1,133	94.2%
WCSP (in review)	0	0	1	0	1	0.1%