Chamaecyparis
The genus Chamaecyparis is one of several genera within the family Cupressaceae that have the common name cypress; for the others, see cypress (disambiguation).
There are five or six species of Chamaecyparis, depending on taxonomic opinion; C. taiwanensis is treated by many as a variety of C. obtusa (as C. obtusa var. formosana).
Another species which used to be included in this genus, as Chamaecyparis nootkatensis, has now been transferred on the basis of strong genetic and morphological evidence back to Cupressus nootkatensis (the name it was originally described under in 1824), or alternatively to the newly created genus Xanthocyparis.
