Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Taxonomic change for the Family Taxodiaceae, 1 by growin

growin wrote:
fyi. Taxodiaceae family has been changed to Cupressaceae with seven subfamilies:
- Callitroideae Saxton (Callitris, Neocallitropsis, Diselma, Widdringtonia, and Libocedrus)
- Athrotaxidoideae Quinn (Athrotaxis)
- Cunninghamioideae (Sieb. & Zucc.) Quinn (Cunninghamia)
- Cupressoideae Rich. ex Sweet (Cupressus, Juniperus, Xanthocyparis, Microbiota, Platycladus, Tetraclinis, Calocedrus, Chamaecyparis, Fokiena, Thuja and Thujopsis)
- Sequoioideae (Luerss.) Quinn (Sequoia, Sequoiadendron, and Metasequoia)
- Taiwanioideae (Hayata) Quinn (Taiwania)
- Taxodioideae Endl. ex K. Koch (Taxodium, Glyptostrobus, and Cryptomeria)
A full description of these changes can be found here: http://www.conifers.org/cu/
RHS database reflects this change: http://www.rhs.org.uk/databases/summary.asp
Mobot is partially changed over: http://mobot.mobot.org/W3T/Search/vast.html

The genus Sciadopitys (Japanase Umbella Pine), which was found to be completely unlike the Cupressaceae, and is now placed in the monotypic family Sciadopityaceae.

I've updated PlantFiles to reflect this change. I just thought some of you might wanna know.

pic: Glyptostrobus pensilis