- Family:
- Cupressaceae Gray
Juniperus L.

[FTEA]
Gymnospermae, R. Melville. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 1958
- Morphology General Habit
- Shrubs and trees when young or throughout life with linear spiny leaves in whorls of 3 or paired, or when adult with scale-like, opposite leaves or mixed foliage, usually dioecious
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Cones
- Cones on short branchlets or males axillary, of rounded, shield-shaped scales bearing 2–6 pollen sacs; females of 2–4 series of scales in pairs or whorls of 3, each with 1–2 ovules; mature cone fleshy, with few to 1 seed with woody testa.
[FSOM]
M. Thulin et al. Flora of Somalia, Vol. 1-4 [updated 2008] https://plants.jstor.org/collection/FLOS
- Morphology General Habit
- Evergreen trees or shrubs, usually dioecious
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves needle-shaped in whorls of 3 or paired, or when adult with scale-like, opposite leaves
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Cones
- Female cones of 2–8 fleshy scales each bearing 1 ovule; mature cone berry-like, with 1–few seeds with woody testa. Male cones of several rounded scales bearing 2–6 pollen-sacs
- Distribution
- Genus of some 70 species, mostlyin the northern hemisphere.
[FZ]
Cupressaceae, John Lewis. Flora Zambesiaca 1:1. 1960
- Morphology General Habit
- Evergreen trees or shrubs, monoecious or dioecious.
- Morphology Leaves
- Leaves usually decussate, elliptic, appressed, imbricate and small on mature plants but subulate and spreading on juveniles.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Cones
- Male cones of several rounded decussate scales bearing 2–6 pollen-sacs.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Strobili
- Female strobili on short lateral shoots, of 2–8 usually decussate fleshy scales each bearing one ovule; mature strobilus a berry-like fruit, the scales swollen, fleshy and confluent.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Seeds
- Seeds 1 or few; testa woody.
Native to:
Afghanistan, Alabama, Alaska, Albania, Alberta, Algeria, Altay, Amur, Arizona, Arkansas, Assam, Austria, Azores, Bahamas, Baleares, Baltic States, Belarus, Belgium, Bermuda, British Columbia, Bulgaria, Buryatiya, California, Canary Is., Central European Rus, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Chita, Colorado, Connecticut, Corse, Cuba, Cyprus, Czechoslovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., East European Russia, East Himalaya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Finland, Florida, France, Føroyar, Georgia, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Greenland, Guatemala, Haiti, Hungary, Iceland, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Inner Mongolia, Iowa, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Irkutsk, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Kamchatka, Kansas, Kazakhstan, Kentucky, Kenya, Khabarovsk, Kirgizstan, Korea, Krasnoyarsk, Kriti, Krym, Kuril Is., Labrador, Lebanon-Syria, Libya, Louisiana, Madeira, Magadan, Maine, Malawi, Manchuria, Manitoba, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Mongolia, Montana, Morocco, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nebraska, Nepal, Netherlands, Nevada, New Brunswick, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Newfoundland, North Carolina, North Caucasus, North Dakota, North European Russi, Northwest European R, Northwest Territorie, Norway, Nova Scotia, Nunavut, Ogasawara-shoto, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oman, Ontario, Oregon, Pakistan, Palestine, Pennsylvania, Poland, Portugal, Primorye, Prince Edward I., Qinghai, Québec, Rhode I., Romania, Sakhalin, Sardegna, Saskatchewan, Saudi Arabia, Sicilia, Sinai, Somalia, South Carolina, South Dakota, South European Russi, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Tennessee, Texas, Tibet, Transcaucasus, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe, Turkmenistan, Tuva, Uganda, Ukraine, Utah, Uzbekistan, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Himalaya, West Siberia, West Virginia, Windward Is., Wisconsin, Wyoming, Xinjiang, Yakutskiya, Yemen, Yugoslavia, Yukon, Zaïre, Zimbabwe
Extinct in:
Mexican Pacific Is.
Introduced into:
Ascension, Cape Provinces, Free State, Lesotho, Mauritius, Réunion, St.Helena, Trinidad-Tobago
- Juniperus × ambigens (Fassett) R.P.Adams
- Juniperus angosturana R.P.Adams
- Juniperus arizonica (R.P.Adams) R.P.Adams
- Juniperus ashei J.Buchholz
- Juniperus barbadensis L.
- Juniperus bermudiana L.
- Juniperus blancoi Martínez
- Juniperus brevifolia (Seub.) Antoine
- Juniperus californica Carrière
- Juniperus canariensis Guyot & Mathou
- Juniperus cedrus Webb & Berthel.
- Juniperus chinensis L.
- Juniperus coahuilensis (Martínez) Gaussen ex R.P.Adams
- Juniperus comitana Martínez
- Juniperus communis L.
- Juniperus convallium Rehder & E.H.Wilson
- Juniperus coxii A.B.Jacks.
- Juniperus deltoides R.P.Adams
- Juniperus deppeana Steud.
- Juniperus drupacea Labill.
- Juniperus durangensis Martínez
- Juniperus excelsa M.Bieb.
- Juniperus × fassettii B.Boivin
- Juniperus flaccida Schltdl.
- Juniperus foetidissima Willd.
- Juniperus formosana Hayata
- Juniperus gamboana Martínez
- Juniperus gracilior Pilg.
- Juniperus grandis R.P.Adams
- Juniperus × herragudensis J.M.Aparicio & Uribe-Ech.
- Juniperus horizontalis Moench
- Juniperus indica Bertol.
- Juniperus jaliscana Martínez
- Juniperus komarovii Florin
- Juniperus macrocarpa Sm.
- Juniperus mairei Lemée & H.Lév.
- Juniperus monosperma (Engelm.) Sarg.
- Juniperus monticola Martínez
- Juniperus morrisonicola Hayata
- Juniperus mucronata R.P.Adams
- Juniperus navicularis Gand.
- Juniperus occidentalis Hook.
- Juniperus osteosperma (Torr.) Little
- Juniperus oxycedrus L.
- Juniperus × palanciana J.M.Aparicio & Uribe-Ech.
- Juniperus × pfitzeriana (Späth) P.A.Schmidt
- Juniperus phoenicea L.
- Juniperus pinchotii Sudw.
- Juniperus pingii W.C.Cheng ex Ferré
- Juniperus poblana (Martínez) R.P.Adams
- Juniperus polycarpos K.Koch
- Juniperus procera Hochst. ex Endl.
- Juniperus procumbens (Siebold ex Endl.) Miq.
- Juniperus przewalskii Kom.
- Juniperus pseudosabina Fisch. & C.A.Mey.
- Juniperus recurva Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
- Juniperus rigida Siebold & Zucc.
- Juniperus sabina L.
- Juniperus saltillensis M.T.Hall
- Juniperus saltuaria Rehder & E.H.Wilson
- Juniperus saxicola Britton & P.Wilson
- Juniperus scopulorum Sarg.
- Juniperus semiglobosa Regel
- Juniperus seravschanica Kom.
- Juniperus squamata D.Don
- Juniperus standleyi Steyerm.
- Juniperus taxifolia Hook. & Arn.
- Juniperus thurifera L.
- Juniperus tibetica Kom.
- Juniperus tsukusiensis Masam.
- Juniperus turbinata Guss.
- Juniperus virginiana L.
- Juniperus zanonii R.P.Adams
Juniperus L. appears in other Kew resources:
First published in Sp. Pl.: 1038 (1753)
Accepted by
- Adams, R.P. (2008). Junipers of the World: The genus Juniperus ed. 2: 1-402. Trafford publishing Co., Vancouver.
- Zhu, A., Fan, W.S., Adams, R.P. & Mower, J.P. (2018). Phylogenomic evidence for ancient recombination between plastid genomes of the Cupressus-Juniperus-Xanthocyparis complex (Cupressaceae) BioMed Central Evolutionary Biology 18(137): 1-10.
Literature
Flora Zambesiaca
- Gen. Pl. ed. 5: 461 (1754).
- Sp. Pl. 2: 1038 (1753)
Flora of Somalia
- Cuf. Enum.: 1–2 (1953).
- Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by M. Thulin [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Gen. Pl, ed. 5 : 461 (1754)
- Sp. Pl. : 1038 (1753)
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Flora of Somalia
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
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