Common name
English: Bald cypress
German: Sumpfzypresse
Mandarin: 落羽杉 (luo yu shan)
Portuguese: Cipreste-dos-pântanos
Classification
Kingdom: Plantae (2715)
Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)
Class: Pinopsida (36)
Order: Pinales (35)
Family: Cupressaceae (13)(family description)
Genus: Taxodium (2)
Epithet: distichum (Linnaeus) Richard (1)
Synonym: Cupressus disticha Linnaeus
disticha => distichous, two-rowed
distichum => means two-ranked, referring to the leaves being in two rows
Characteristics
Climate: sub-tropical
Habitat: hydrophytic
Habit: tree
Flower colour: green
External links
Check for Taxodium distichum at
World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI- [149] Taxodium distichum - Gymnosperm Database
- [710] Taxodium distichum - Plants For A Future database