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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Chamaecyparis

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Chamaecyparis formosensis Matsum.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaecyparis funebris (Endl.) Franco	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaecyparis lawsoniana (A.Murray bis) Parl.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaecyparis obtusa (Siebold & Zucc.) Endl.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaecyparis pisifera (Siebold & Zucc.) Endl.	Accepted		WCSP
Chamaecyparis thyoides (L.) Britton, Sterns & Poggenb.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 41 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Chamaecyparis. Of these 6 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 39 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Chamaecyparis. 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 41 species names for the genus Chamaecyparis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	6	14.6%
◕	Synonym	28	68.3%
◕	Unplaced	2	4.9%
◕	Unassessed	5	12.2%

All names

The status of the 80 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Chamaecyparis recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	8	10.0%
◕	Synonym	65	81.3%
◕	Unplaced	2	2.5%
◕	Unassessed	5	6.3%

Of these names,

• 1 are recorded as invalid
• 1 are recorded as illegitimate
• 1 are recorded as a spelling variant

The confidence with which the status of the 41 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Chamaecyparis, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	5	20	0	0	25	61.0%
	Medium confidence	0	1	0	0	1	2.4%
	Low confidence	1	7	2	5	15	36.6%

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