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Hesperocyparis
''Hesperocyparis'' (western cypress) is a genus of trees in the family Cupressaceae, containing North American species otherwise assigned to the genus ''Cupressus''. They are found throughout western North America. Only a few species have wide ranges, with most being restricted-range endemics. Members of ''Hesperocyparis'' were and still are placed in ''Cupressus'' by many authorities, but phylogenetic evidence supports a different affinity. A 2021 molecular study found ''Hesperocyparis'' to be the sister group to the genus '' Callitropsis'' (containing only the Nootka cypress), with this clade being sister to the Asian genus ''Xanthocyparis'', containing only the Vietnamese golden cypress. The clade comprising all three genera was found to be sister to a clade containing ''Juniperus'' and ''Cupressus sensu stricto''. This genus contains the following species: *'' Hesperocyparis abramsiana'' (C. B. Wolf) Bartel *''Hesperocyparis arizonica'' (Greene) Bartel *''Hesperocyparis baker ...
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Hesperocyparis
''Hesperocyparis'' (western cypress) is a genus of trees in the family Cupressaceae, containing North American species otherwise assigned to the genus ''Cupressus''. They are found throughout western North America. Only a few species have wide ranges, with most being restricted-range endemics. Members of ''Hesperocyparis'' were and still are placed in ''Cupressus'' by many authorities, but phylogenetic evidence supports a different affinity. A 2021 molecular study found ''Hesperocyparis'' to be the sister group to the genus '' Callitropsis'' (containing only the Nootka cypress), with this clade being sister to the Asian genus ''Xanthocyparis'', containing only the Vietnamese golden cypress. The clade comprising all three genera was found to be sister to a clade containing ''Juniperus'' and ''Cupressus sensu stricto''. This genus contains the following species: *'' Hesperocyparis abramsiana'' (C. B. Wolf) Bartel *''Hesperocyparis arizonica'' (Greene) Bartel *''Hesperocyparis baker ...
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Hesperocyparis Glabra
''Hesperocyparis'' (western cypress) is a genus of trees in the family Cupressaceae, containing North American species otherwise assigned to the genus ''Cupressus''. They are found throughout western North America. Only a few species have wide ranges, with most being restricted-range endemics. Members of ''Hesperocyparis'' were and still are placed in ''Cupressus'' by many authorities, but phylogenetic evidence supports a different affinity. A 2021 molecular study found ''Hesperocyparis'' to be the sister group to the genus '' Callitropsis'' (containing only the Nootka cypress), with this clade being sister to the Asian genus '' Xanthocyparis'', containing only the Vietnamese golden cypress. The clade comprising all three genera was found to be sister to a clade containing '' Juniperus'' and ''Cupressus sensu stricto''. This genus contains the following species: *'' Hesperocyparis abramsiana'' (C. B. Wolf) Bartel *''Hesperocyparis arizonica'' (Greene) Bartel *''Hesperocyparis bak ...
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Hesperocyparis Stephensonii
''Cupressus stephensonii'' is a species of conifer known as the Cuyamaca cypress, and is endemic to Southern California. It has been classified as ''Hesperocyparis stephensonii''. It was previously listed as ''Cupressus arizonica'' subsp. ''stephensonii'' and ''Cupressus arizonica'' var. ''glabra''. Distribution The Cuyamaca Cypress exists only in the headwaters area of King Creek in the Cuyamaca Mountains of the Peninsular Ranges system, south of Cuyamaca Peak within San Diego County in extreme Southern California. Trees were reported growing as low as in elevation in 1998, but the presence of these individuals today has not been verified. Most individual trees occur at within the Pacific Southwest Research Station's King Creek Research Natural Area, in the Cleveland National Forest. Conservation It is an IUCN Red List Critically Endangered species, and a California Native Plant Society Inventory of Rare and Endangered Plants listed Seriously endangered species.
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Hesperocyparis Nevadensis
''Cupressus nevadensis'', now reclassified as ''Hesperocyparis nevadensis'',Jepson eFlora (JM2): ''Hesperocyparis nevadensis''
. accessed 8.28.2015.
with the common name Paiute cypress, is a species of Cupressaceae, cypress tree native to a small area in Sierra Nevada of California, in the western United States.


Distribution

The Paiute cypress grows in a small area of the Southern Sierra Nevada, within Kern County, California and Tulare County, California, Tulare County. It is found on soils of granitic origin at altitudes of . It is found in pinyon/juniper and oak/pine woodlands, chaparral, and closed-cone-cypress forest habitats. The largest grove composed primarily of the species is located south of the town of Bodfish, California, Bodfish in the ...
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Hesperocyparis Macrocarpa
''Hesperocyparis macrocarpa'' is a coniferous tree. It is commonly known as the Monterey cypress and is one of several species of cypress trees endemic to California. The Monterey cypress is found naturally only on the Central Coast of California. The natural distributional range of the species during modern times is confined to two small relict populations near Carmel, California, at Cypress Point in Pebble Beach and at Point Lobos. Historically during the peak of the last ice age, Monterey cypress would have likely comprised a much larger forest that extended much further north and south.Axelrod, D. I. (1982)AGE AND ORIGIN OF THE MONTEREY ENDEMIC AREA.''Madroño'', ''29''(3), 127–147. Description ''Hesperocyparis macrocarpa'' is a medium-sized coniferous evergreen tree, which often becomes irregular and flat-topped as a result of the strong winds that are typical of its native area. It grows to heights of up to 40 meters (133 feet) in perfect growing conditions, a ...
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Hesperocyparis Bakeri
''Cupressus bakeri'', reclassified as ''Hesperocyparis bakeri'',CalFlora Database: ''Hesperocyparis bakeri''
. accessed 8.28.2015.
with the common names Baker cypress, Modoc cypress, or Siskiyou cypress, is a rare species of Cupressaceae, cypress tree endemic to a small area across far northern California and extreme southwestern Oregon, in the western United States.


Description

The evergreen tree has a conic crown, growing to heights of , exceptionally to 39 m (130 ft), and a trunk diameter of up to 50 centimeters (20 inches), exception ...
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Hesperocyparis Arizonica
''Cupressus arizonica'', the Arizona cypress, is a North American species of tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native species, native to the southwestern United States and Mexico. Populations may be scattered rather than in large, dense stands. Description ''Cupressus arizonica'' is a coniferous evergreen tree with a cone, conic to ovoid-conic crown. It grows to heights of , and its trunk diameter reaches . The foliage grows in dense sprays, varying from dull gray-green to bright glaucous blue-green. The leaves are scale-like, 2–5 mm long, and produced on rounded (not flattened) shoots. The seed conifer cone, cones are globose to oblong, 15–33 mm long, with 6 or 8 (rarely 4 or 10) scales, green at first, maturing gray or gray-brown about 20–24 months after pollination. The cones remain closed for many years, only opening after the bearing branch is killed (in a wildfire or otherwise), allowing the seeds to colonize the bare ground exposed by the fire. The ma ...
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Hesperocyparis Montana
''Cupressus arizonica'', the Arizona cypress, is a North American species of tree in the cypress family Cupressaceae, native to the southwestern United States and Mexico. Populations may be scattered rather than in large, dense stands. Description ''Cupressus arizonica'' is a coniferous evergreen tree with a conic to ovoid-conic crown. It grows to heights of , and its trunk diameter reaches . The foliage grows in dense sprays, varying from dull gray-green to bright glaucous blue-green. The leaves are scale-like, 2–5 mm long, and produced on rounded (not flattened) shoots. The seed cones are globose to oblong, 15–33 mm long, with 6 or 8 (rarely 4 or 10) scales, green at first, maturing gray or gray-brown about 20–24 months after pollination. The cones remain closed for many years, only opening after the bearing branch is killed (in a wildfire or otherwise), allowing the seeds to colonize the bare ground exposed by the fire. The male cones are 3–5 mm long, a ...
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Hesperocyparis Forbesii
''Cupressus forbesii'', now reclassified by some as ''Hesperocyparis forbesii'', and with the common names Tecate cypress or Forbes' cypress, is a species of cypress native to southwestern North America. Distribution ''Cupressus forbesii'' is native to montane chaparral and woodlands habitats in the western Peninsular Ranges. It grows at elevations of . The tree is found only in the Santa Ana Mountains of Orange County and in San Diego County within Southern California, and in northern Baja California state of Mexico. The northernmost stand, in Orange County, which comprises a large area on the upper limits of Coal Canyon and on Sierra Peak in the Santa Ana Mountains, burned in a 2006 wildfire. Very few mature trees survived but regeneration is occurring by the hundreds to thousands. However another wildfire before trees are able to reach cone-producing age, which can be quite old for this species, could extirpate the stand. Description ''Cupressus forbesii'' reaches , and i ...
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Hesperocyparis Abramsiana
The Santa Cruz cypress (''Hesperocyparis abramsiana''; formerly classified as ''Cupressus abramsiana'') is a species of North American tree within the Cypress family. The species is endemic to the Santa Cruz Mountains within the Santa Cruz and San Mateo counties of west-central California.Wolf, Carl B. (1948) Taxonomic And Distributional Studies Of The New World Cypresses, Aliso: A Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Botany: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 2. p. 206. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the species on the Endangered Species Act in 1987 due to increasing threats from habitat loss and disruption of natural forest fire regimes.U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 1987. Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; Determination of endangered status for ''Cupressus abramsiana'' (Santa Cruz cypress). Federal Register 52: 675-679. https://ecos.fws.gov/docs/federal_register/fr1017.pdf In 2016, the conservation status of the Santa Cruz cypress changed to Threatened. The cite ...
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Xanthocyparis
''Xanthocyparis'' is a genus of cypresses in the family Cupressaceae. , it has only one species, ''Xanthocyparis vietnamensis'', native to Vietnam and southeast China. It is commonly known as the Vietnamese golden cypress. The Nootka cypress, ''Cupressus nootkatensis'' or ''Callitropsis nootkatensis'', was also placed in the genus, but this has been rejected. Taxonomy In 2002, Aljos Farjon and others described the new genus ''Xanthocyparis'' to accommodate the new Vietnamese species '' X. vietnamensis'' and another species, the Nootka cypress, which had been formerly included in the genus ''Chamaecyparis'' as ''C. nootkatensis''. This was based in part on the discovery that ''C. nootkatensis'' was more closely related to the genus ''Cupressus'' than to ''Chamaecyparis''. In 2004, Damon Little and others, while confirming the above relationship with further evidence, pointed out that as circumscribed by Farjon ''et al.'', ''Xanthocyparis'' included the type species ...
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Hesperocyparis Lusitanica
''Cupressus lusitanica'', the Mexican cedar or cedar-of-Goa, is a species of cypress native to Mexico and Central America (Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras). It has also been introduced to Belize, Costa Rica and Nicaragua, growing at altitude. The scientific name ''lusitanica'' (of Portugal) refers to its very early cultivation there, with plants imported from Mexico to the monastery at Buçaco, near Coimbra in Portugal in about 1634; these trees were already over 130 years old when the species was botanically described by Miller in 1768. In Mexico, the tree is also known as ''cedro blanco'' (white cedar) or ''teotlate''. __TOC__ Description ''Cupressus lusitanica'' is an evergreen conifer tree with a conic to ovoid-conic crown, growing to 40 m tall. The foliage grows in dense sprays, dark green to somewhat yellow-green in colour. The leaves are scale-like, 2–5 mm long, and produced on rounded (not flattened) shoots. The seed cones are globose to oblong, 10–20 ...
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