Cupressaceae

Subfamily Callitroideae

• Callitris glaucophylla
• Callitris intratropica
• Callitris rhomboidea
• Pilgerodendron uviferum
• Widdringtonia cedarbergensis
• Widdringtonia nodiflora

Subfamily Cupressoideae

• Chamaecyparis thyoides
• Cupressus goveniana var. pigmaea
• Cupressus lusitanica

Subfamily Sequoioideae

• Sequoia sempervirens

Subfamily Taxodioideae

• Glyptostrobus pensilis

• Query IPNI
• Common Name: Mexican cypress, cedar of Goa, Portugal cedar
• Family: Cupressaceae Bartling

• Country of Origin: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua and Costa Rica
• Habitat: altitudes from 1200 to 3000 m

• Description: A tree attaining 25-30 m in height. Crown broadly pyramidal, in older trees broad with pendulous branches. Bark thick, reddish-brown, with longitudinal fissures. Shoots quadrangular, pendulous, not in a single plane. Foliage distinctly bluish-green, four-ranked, ovate, closely pressed, usually with long, pointed apex. Cones globose, cca 12 mm across, bluish-green in the juvenile stage, turning dark brown when they ripen, they open and later fall, composed of 6-8 scales with a central strong, reflexed umbo, erect on the upper scales. Seeds about 75 to a cone, brown, with resin glands, about 4 mm long together with a narrow wing