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

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Juniperus

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

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Juniperus × ambigens (Fassett) R.P.Adams	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus angosturana R.P.Adams	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus arizonica (R.P.Adams) R.P.Adams	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus ashei J.Buchholz	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus barbadensis L.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus bermudiana L.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus blancoi Martínez	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus brevifolia (Seub.) Antoine	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus californica Carrière	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus cedrus Webb & Berthel.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus chinensis L.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus coahuilensis (Martínez) Gaussen ex R.P.Adams	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus comitana Martínez	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus communis L.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus compacta (Martínez) R.P.Adams	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus convallium Rehder & E.H.Wilson	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus coxii A.B.Jacks.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus deltoides R.P.Adams	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus deppeana Steud.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus drupacea Labill.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus durangensis Martínez	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus erectopatens (W.C.Cheng & L.K.Fu) R.P.Adams	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus excelsa M.Bieb.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus × fassettii B.Boivin	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus flaccida Schltdl.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus foetidissima Willd.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus formosana Hayata	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus gracilior Pilg.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus grandis R.P.Adams	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus horizontalis Moench	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus indica Bertol.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus jaliscana Martínez	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus jarkendensis Kom.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus komarovii Florin	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus macrocarpa Sm.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus maritima R.P.Adams	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus martinezii Pérez de la Rosa	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus × media Dmitr.	Accepted		TRO
Juniperus microsperma (W.C.Cheng & L.K.Fu) R.P.Adams	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus monosperma (Engelm.) Sarg.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus monticola Martínez	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus morrisonicola Hayata	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus mucronata R.P.Adams	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus navicularis Gand.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus occidentalis Hook.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus osteosperma (Torr.) Little	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus oxycedrus L.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus × palanciana J.M.Aparicio & Uribe-Ech.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus phoenicea L.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus pinchotii Sudw.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus pingii W.C.Cheng ex Ferré	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus poblana (Martínez) R.P.Adams	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus polycarpos K.Koch	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus procera Hochst. ex Endl.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus procumbens (Siebold ex Endl.) Miq.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus przewalskii Kom.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus pseudosabina Fisch. & C.A.Mey.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus recurva Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus rigida Siebold & Zucc.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus sabina L.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus saltillensis M.T.Hall	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus saltuaria Rehder & E.H.Wilson	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus saxicola Britton & P.Wilson	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus scopulorum Sarg.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus semiglobosa Regel	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus squamata Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus standleyi Steyerm.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus taxifolia Hook. & Arn.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus thurifera L.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus tibetica Kom.	Accepted		WCSP
Juniperus virginiana L.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 353 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Juniperus. Of these 71 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 305 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Juniperus. 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 353 species names for the genus Juniperus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	71	20.1%
◕	Synonym	272	77.1%
◕	Unplaced	4	1.1%
◕	Unassessed	6	1.7%

All names

The status of the 658 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Juniperus recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	106	16.1%
◕	Synonym	542	82.4%
◕	Unplaced	4	0.6%
◕	Unassessed	6	0.9%

Of these names,

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

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

The confidence with which the status of the 353 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Juniperus, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	70	256	0	0	326	92.4%
	Medium confidence	1	11	0	0	12	3.4%
	Low confidence	0	5	4	6	15	4.2%

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