Taxon: Cupressus sempervirens L.

Genus:

Cupressus

Family:

Cupressaceae

Nomen number:

12665

Place of publication:

Sp. pl. 2:1002. 1753

Link to protologue:

Typification:

Name Verified on:

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

Species priority site is:

National Arboretum (NA)

Accessions:

13 in National Plant Germplasm System (GoogleMap)

Other conspecific taxa:

Synonyms:

(=) Cupressus horizontalis Mill.
(=) Cupressus sempervirens var. horizontalis (Mill.) G. Don, nom. nud.
(=) Cupressus sempervirens var. stricta Aiton

Common names:

Italian cypress (Source: Dict Rehm) - English
Mediterranean cypress (Source: World Econ Pl) - English
cyprès commun (Source: HerbSpices) - French
cyprès d'Italie (Source: Dict Rehm) - French
echte Zypresse (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
italienische Zypresse (Source: Dict Rehm) - German
cipresso comune (Source: Mult Glossary Trees) - Italian
ciprés común (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
ciprés italiano (Source: Dict Rehm) - Spanish
kretacypress (Source: Kulturvaxtdatabas) - Swedish
di zhong hai bai mu (Source: F ChinaEng) - Transcribed Chinese

Economic Importance:

Environmental: ornamental (fide Dict Gard; Hortus 3; Monog Cupressaceae)
Materials: essential oils (fide HerbSpices)
Medicines: folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
Vertebrate poisons: mammals (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2)

Distributional Range:

Native

Africa

NORTHERN AFRICA: Libya

Asia-Temperate

WESTERN ASIA: Cyprus, Iran (n.), Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey (s.)

Europe

SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE: Greece [Crete]

Cultivated

(also cult.)

References:

Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. 1998 (Cooper & Johnson ed2)
Craker, L. E. & J. E. Simon, eds. Herbs, spices, and medicinal plants, 2 vols. 1986-1987 (HerbSpices)
Davis, P. H., ed. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands. 1965-1988 (F Turk)
Farjon, A. A monograph of Cupressaceae and Sciadopitys. 2005 (Monog Cupressaceae) 220-223.
Greuter, W. et al., eds. Med-Checklist. 1984- (L Medit)
Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
International Seed Testing Association A Multilingual Glossary of Common Plant-Names 2. Trees. 1971 (Mult Glossary Trees)
McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 (Herbs Commerce ed2)
Rechinger, K. H., ed. Flora iranica. 1963- (F Iran)
Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 (Dict Rehm)
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. Flora of China (English edition). 1994- (F ChinaEng)

Check other web resources for Cupressus sempervirens L. :

Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
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=12665. Accessed 7 junio 2026.