Cypress family
CUPRESSACEAE (PINOPHYTA) in Australia

Flower Families

Don Herbison-Evans (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) & Christine Ashe

Plant Classes

Callitris rhomboidea Oyster Bay Pine Photo: courtesy of Paul Whitington Wonboyn, NSW.	Cupressus cashmiriana Cashmir Cypress Wyee, April 2006	Cupressus macrocarpa Monterey Cypress Sydney, October 2008	Cupressus sempervirens Mediterranean Cypress Sydney, August 2006
Glyptostrobus pensilis Water Pine Sydney, November 2007	Juniperus chinensis Chinese Juniper Sydney, October 2008	Juniperus horizontalis Creeping Juniper Sydney, October 2008	Juniperus scopulorum Rocky Mountain Juniper Sydney, October 2008

Taxodium mucronatum Montezuma Baldcypress Sydney, February 2007

Some caterpillars of Australian Moths have been found feeding on species in CUPRESSACEAE as their foodplant, for example:

Dirce aesiodora	Acalyphes philorites	Acalyphes species	Meyrickella torquesauria	Teia anartoides
Athrotaxivora tasmanica	Arachnographa micrastrella	Metura elongatus	Clania ignobilis	Tracholena sulfurosa

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Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian moths

(updated 5 January 2013, 24 December 2015)