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

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

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: