Cupressales

Cupressales
The Estry Yew,
Normandy, France
(Taxus baccata)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Gymnospermae
Division: Pinophyta
Class: Pinopsida
Subclass: Cupressidae
Order: Cupressales
Emberger
Families

Cupressales is one of two orders of conifers within the subclass Cupressidae[1]. It comprises three or four families: the cypress family, the yew family, the Cephalotaxaceae (which are sometimes included in the yew family and sometimes counted as a separate family) and the umbrella pines[2].

References

  1. ^ Leslie, Andrew B.; Beaulieu, Jeremy; Holman, Garth; Campbell, Christopher S.; Mei, Wenbin; Raubeson, Linda R.; Mathews, Sarah (29 August 2018). "An overview of extant conifer evolution from the perspective of the fossil record". American Journal of Botany. 105 (9): 1531–1544. doi:10.1002/ajb2.1143.
  2. ^ Yang, Yong; Ferguson, David K.; Liu, Bing; Mao, Kang-Shan; Gao, Lian-Ming; Zhang, Shou-Zhou; Wan, Tao; Rushforth, Keith; Zhang, Zhi-Xiang (July 2022). "Recent advances on phylogenomics of gymnosperms and a new classification". Plant Diversity. 44 (4): 340–350. doi:10.1016/j.pld.2022.05.003.