Hesperocyparis Bartel & R.A.Price

Native to:

Arizona, Belize, California, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, New Mexico, Nicaragua, Oregon, Texas

Introduced into:

Amsterdam-St.Paul Is, Argentina Northeast, Comoros, East Himalaya, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Is., France, Free State, Great Britain, Hawaii, Ireland, Italy, Juan Fernández Is., Madeira, Mauritius, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Norfolk Is., Portugal, Réunion, Sicilia, South Australia, Spain, St.Helena, Sudan, Tasmania, Trinidad-Tobago, Turkey, Turkey-in-Europe

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

• Christenhusz, M.J.M., Fay, M.F. & Chase, M.W. (2017). Plants of the World. An illustrated encyclopedia of vascular plants: 1-792. Kew Publishing, The university of Chicago Press.
• 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.

An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:

• Christenhusz, M.J.M., Reveal, J.L., Farjon, A., Gardner, M.F., Mill, R.R. & Chase, M.W. (2011). A new classification and linear sequence of extant gymnosperms. Phytotaxa 19: 55-70. [Cited as Cupressus.]
• Govaerts, R.H.A. (2011). World checklist of selected plant families published update Facilitated by the Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Cupressus.]