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Hesperocyparis macrocarpa also known as Cupressus macrocarpa, [4] [5] or the Monterey cypress is a coniferous tree, and is one of several species of cypress trees native to California. The Monterey cypress is found naturally only on the Central Coast of California .
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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 flora of this ecoregion also includes tree species such as gray or foothill pine (Pinus sabiniana), scrub oak (Quercus dumosa), California buckeye (Aesculus californica), the rare Gowen cypress (Cupressus goveniana), the rare Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa), and a wealth of endemic plant species, including the extremely rare San ...
Cypress (multiple species within the genus Cupressus): Cupressus sempervirens, a common cypress also referred to as Italian cypress and Mediterranean cypress. [2] It is native to the eastern Mediterranean region and Iran. Hesperocyparis lusitanica, commonly known as the Mexican cypress, which is native to Mexico and Central America. [3 ...
On young plants, the leaves are needle-like, becoming small and scale-like on mature plants of many genera; some genera and species retain needle-like leaves throughout their lives. [1] Old leaves are mostly not shed individually, but in small sprays of foliage ( cladoptosis ); [ 1 ] exceptions are leaves on the shoots that develop into branches.
In 1896 Maxwell T. Masters, as part of a paper on the genus Cupressus as a whole, thought it properly classified as Cupressus macrocarpa var. guadalupensis, reducing it to a botanical variety. [2] In the same paper he also combined a number of Mexican species to just two, Cupressus benthamii and Cupressus thurifera. [14]
Callitris is a genus of coniferous trees in the Cupressaceae (cypress family). There are 16 recognized species in the genus, of which 13 are native to Australia and the other three (C. neocaledonica, C. sulcata and C. pancheri) native to New Caledonia. [1]