A genus Cupressus is one of several genera in a family Cupressaceae that have a most common title cypress; for the others, view cypress (disambiguation).

Every bit presently treated, these cypresses come indigen to scattered neighborhood inside in the main warmly moderate regions in the northern hemisphere, including american North America, Central America, north-nor'-west Africa, the Middle East, the Himalaya, southern China and north Vietnam. It is evergreen trees or big shrubs, growing to 5-40 m tall. A leaves are scale-such as, Two-6 millimeter hanker, intended within paired intersectant pairs, & persist for Three-Five years. In immature plants as much as One-Two years old, a leaves come needle-prefer, Five-15 millimeter yearn. A cones are 8-4Millimetre hanker, spheric or even oviform by having Four-14 scales intended inside opposite intersectant pairs; it is matured around 18-Two dozen months from either pollination. A seeds are small, Four-7 millimeter yearn, using ii narrow wings, 1 along every side of the seed.

Several of the mintage come adapted to forest fires, holding their seeds for many years around closed cones until a parent trees come flushed by a fire; a seeds come so freed to colonise the bare, burnt ground. Around more coinage, a cones open at maturity to release a seeds.

Several coinage come grown when ornamental trees withwithin parks &, in Asia, around temples; in a bit of areas, a native distribution is difficult to discern ascribable extensive cultivation. Two or three metal money come grown for their timber, which may be super durable. A convenient-aggressive interbred Leyland Cypress, much utilized inside gardens, draws one of its parents from this genus (Monterey Cypress C. macrocarpa); a more parent, Nootka Cypress, is also periodically classified therein genus, or even else in the separate genus Callitropsis, but it used to be that extra commonly within Chamaecyparis.

Species
A total of mintage recognised inside this genus varies sharply, from either 16 to 25 or even supplementary based on data from a authority followed. This is because virtually all populations come little & isolated, & these are hard without doubt whether it should become accorded specific, subspecific or varietal rank. Todays tendencies come to reduce a total of recognised mintage; after a narrow mintage conception is adopted, the varieties indented in the listing in the image below will when well exist as accepted as distinct metal money. View as well the Just released Globe mintage (following) for a in all probability split in the genus later.

Old World species
A Old Globe cypresses tend to keep around cones by using additional scales (8-14 scales, seldom Half a dozen within C. funebris), both shell by using the short wide ridge, non the spike. Cupressus sempervirens is a nature and severity mintage of the genus, defining the title Cupressus. Cupressus cashmeriana (Bhutan Cypress) - Conservation status: Vulnerable Cupressus chengiana (Cheng's Cypress) - Conservation status: Vulnerable Cupressus duclouxiana (Yunnan Cypress) - *Cupressus dupreziana (Saharan Cypress) Cupressus atlantica (C. dupreziana volt-ampere. atlantica; Moroccan Cypress) Cupressus funebris (Weeping Cypress) - Conservation status: Secure Cupressus gigantea (Tibetan Cypress) - Conservation status: Vulnerable Cupressus sempervirens (Mediterranean Cypress) Cupressus torulosa (Himalayan Cypress) -

New World species
A Up to date Globe cypresses tend to keep around cones sustaining fewer scales (Four-8 scales, seldom further within C. macrocarpa), every shell using an typically large narrow spike. Super recent hereditary grounds to believe (Little et al., November 2004) shows that it is less closely related the Old Globe cypresses than antecedently thought, existence additional closely related Callitropsis and Juniperus than to the rest of Cupressus. The vary within generic classification for these metal money is so belike in the close new, either to Callitropsis or even to the fresh genus. Cupressus arizonica (Arizona Cypress) Cupressus arizonica volt-ampere. glabra (C. glabra; Smooth Arizona Cypress) Cupressus arizonica volt-ampere. mt (C. treasure state; San Pedro Martir Cypress) Cupressus arizonica volt-ampere. nevadensis (C. nevadensis; Piute Cypress) Cupressus arizonica volt-ampere. stephensonii (C. stephensonii; Cuyamaca Cypress) Cupressus bakeri (Modoc Cypress) Cupressus goveniana (Gowen Cypress) Cupressus goveniana volt-ampere. pygmaea (C. pygmaea; Mendocino Cypress) Cupressus goveniana volt-ampere. abramsiana (C. abramsiana; Santa Cruz Cypress) Cupressus guadalupensis (Guadalupe Cypress) Cupressus guadalupensis volt-ampere. forbesii (C. forbesii; Tecate Cypress Cupressus lusitanica (Mexican Cypress) - **Cupressus lusitanica volt-ampere. benthamii (C. benthamii; Bentham's Cypress) - *Cupressus macnabiana (Macnab Cypress) - *Cupressus macrocarpa (Monterey Cypress) Cupressus sargentii (Sargent Cypress) - Conservation status: Secure

Callitropsis nootkatensis (Nootka Cypress) is also every now and again treated when Cupressus nootkatensis