Taxon: Cupressus lusitanica Mill.

Genus:

Cupressus

Family:

Cupressaceae

Nomen number:

12658

Place of publication:

Gard. dict. ed. 8: Cupressus no. 3. 1768

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

09-jul-2007 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last Changed: 11-jul-2007

Species priority site is:

National Arboretum (NA)

Accessions:

1 in National Plant Germplasm System (GoogleMap)

Other conspecific taxa:

Common names:

Arizona cypress (Source: Aust Pl Common Names) - English
cedar-of-Goa (Source: Taxon) - English
Mexican cypress (Source: Taxon) - English
Portuguese cypress (Source: Websters Dict) - English
árvore-da-vida (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
cerca-viva (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
cipreste (Source: pers. comm.) - Portuguese (Brazil)
cedro (Source: Monog Cupressaceae) - Spanish
ciprés (Source: Monog Cupressaceae) - Spanish
mexikansk cypress (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish

Economic Importance:

Environmental: ornamental (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3)
Materials: wood (timber fide Ency WTimber; Monog Cupressaceae)
Medicines: folklore (fide Herbs Commerce ed2)

Distributional Range:

Native

Northern America

NORTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chihuahua, Zacatecas]
SOUTHERN MEXICO: Mexico [Chiapas, Federal District, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Mexico, Michoacan, Puebla, Tlaxcala, Veracruz]

Southern America

CENTRAL AMERICA: Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua

Cultivated

(also cult.)

References:

Webster's third new international dictionary. 1961 (Websters Dict)
Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource on www.skud.info). 2012 (Kulturvaxtdatabas)
Farjon, A. 1993. Nomenclature of the Mexican cypress or "cedar of Goa", Cupressus lusitanica Mill. (Taxon) 42:83.
Farjon, A. A monograph of Cupressaceae and Sciadopitys. 2005 (Monog Cupressaceae) 209-210.
Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. (pers. comm.)
Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS) Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). (Aust Pl Common Names)
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 (Herbs Commerce ed2)
McVaugh, R. Flora Novo-Galiciana. 1983- (F NGalicia)

Check other web resources for Cupressus lusitanica Mill. :

TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2026. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://germoplasma.iniaf.gob.bo/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=12658. Accessed 7 junio 2026.