gymnosperm genus

1. A genus of gymnosperms (synset 111574626)
   is a type of: genus - (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species
   subtypes:

   • genus gnetum - type genus of the Gnetaceae; small trees or shrubs usually with climbing jointed stems and terminal spikes of flowers with orange-red seeds clustered in rough cones
   • catha, genus catha - a genus of African evergreen shrubs characterized by thick leaves and white flowers
   • genus ephedra - type and sole genus of Ephedraceae: tropical and subtropical evergreen shrubby or creeping plants native to dry and inhospitable regions
   • genus welwitchia, genus welwitschia - type and sole genus of Welwitschiaceae
   • cycas, genus cycas - type genus of Cycadaceae: genus of widely distributed Old World evergreen tropical trees having pinnate leaves and columnar stems covered with persistent bases of old leaves
   • genus zamia - genus of small evergreen tropical and subtropical American cycads
   • genus ceratozamia - small genus of Mexican cycads; sometimes classified in family Cycadaceae
   • genus dioon - small genus of arborescent cycads of Mexico and Central America; sometimes classified in family Cycadaceae
   • genus encephalartos - genus of arborescent African cycads; sometimes classified in family Cycadaceae
   • genus macrozamia - genus of large evergreen Australian cycads; sometimes classified in family Cycadaceae
   • bennettitis, genus bennettitis - type of the Bennettitales
   • genus lyginopteris, lyginopteris - genus of fossil seed ferns of the Carboniferous
   • cordaites, genus cordaites - tall Paleozoic trees superficially resembling modern screw pines; structurally intermediate in some ways between cycads and conifers
   • genus pinus, pinus - type genus of the Pinaceae: large genus of true pines
   • genus larix, larix - larches
   • genus pseudolarix, pseudolarix - one species: golden larch
   • abies, genus abies - true firs
   • cedrus, genus cedrus - true cedars
   • genus picea, picea - a genus of temperate and Arctic evergreen trees (see spruce)
   • genus tsuga, tsuga - hemlock; hemlock fir; hemlock spruce
   • genus pseudotsuga, pseudotsuga - douglas fir; closely related to genera Larix and Cathaya
   • genus cathaya - one species; related to Pseudotsuga and Larix
   • cupressus, genus cupressus - type genus of Cupressaceae
   • athrotaxis, genus athrotaxis - a genus of gymnosperm
   • austrocedrus, genus austrocedrus - one species; formerly included in genus Libocedrus
   • callitris, genus callitris - evergreen monoecious coniferous trees or shrubs: cypress pines
   • calocedrus, genus calocedrus - tall evergreens of western North America and eastern Asia; formerly included in genus Libocedrus
   • chamaecyparis, genus chamaecyparis - a genus of Chamaecyparis
   • cryptomeria, genus cryptomeria - Japanese cedar; sugi
   • genus juniperus, juniperus - junipers
   • genus libocedrus, libocedrus - cypresses that resemble cedars
   • genus metasequoia - genus of deciduous conifers comprising both living and fossil forms; 1 extant species: dawn redwood of China; variously classified as member of Pinaceae or Taxodiaceae
   • genus sequoia - redwoods; until recently considered a genus of a separate family Taxodiaceae
   • genus taxodium, taxodium - bald cypress; swamp cypress
   • genus tetraclinis, tetraclinis - sandarac tree
   • genus thuja, thuja - red cedar
   • genus thujopsis, thujopsis - one species; has close similarity to genus Thuja
   • genus keteleeria - a genus of keteleeria
   • genus araucaria - a genus of the araucaria family
   • agathis, genus agathis - kauri pine
   • cephalotaxus, genus cephalotaxus - the genus of Cephalotaxus (see plum-yews)
   • genus torreya, torreya - nutmeg-yews
   • genus phyllocladus, phyllocladus - celery pine
   • genus podocarpus, podocarpus - evergreen trees or shrubs; sometimes classified as member of the family Taxaceae
   • afrocarpus, genus afrocarpus - dioecious evergreen trees or shrubs; equatorial to southern and southeastern Africa: yellowwood; similar to trees or genus Podocarpus
   • dacrycarpus, genus dacrycarpus - evergreen coniferous shrubs or trees of New Zealand to Malaysia and Philippines
   • dacrydium, genus dacrydium - Australasian evergreen trees or shrubs
   • falcatifolium, genus falcatifolium - sickle pines: dioecious evergreen tropical trees and shrubs having sickle-shaped leaves; similar to Dacrycarpus in habit; Malaysia and Philippines to New Guinea and New Caledonia
   • genus halocarpus, halocarpus - dioecious trees or shrubs of New Zealand; similar in habit to Dacrydium
   • genus lagarostrobus, lagarostrobus - genus of dioecious evergreen trees of New Zealand and Tasmania; similar to genus Dacrydium
   • genus lepidothamnus, lepidothamnus - small usually shrubby conifers
   • genus microstrobos, microstrobos - 2 species of small evergreen shrubs of Australia and Tasmania
   • genus nageia, nageia - small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib; eastern Asia including India and Philippines and New Guinea
   • genus parasitaxus, parasitaxus - one species: parasite yew
   • genus prumnopitys, prumnopitys - mostly dioecious evergreen conifers; leaves are softer than in Podocarpus
   • genus retrophyllum, retrophyllum - small genus of tropical evergreen dioecious shrubs or trees of Oceania and tropical South America
   • genus saxe-gothea, genus saxegothea, saxe-gothea, saxegothea - one species: Prince Albert's yew
   • genus sundacarpus, sundacarpus - one species
   • genus sciadopitys, sciadopitys - type and sole genus of Sciadopityaceae; Japanese umbrella pines
   • genus taxus, taxus - yews
   • austrotaxus, genus austrotaxus - a gymnosperm genus having one species: New Caledonian yew
   • genus pseudotaxus, pseudotaxus - one species
   • genus ginkgo - sole surviving genus of the Ginkgoaceae
   belongs to: class gymnospermae, division gymnospermophyta, gymnospermae, gymnospermophyta - plants having naked seeds not enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Gymnospermae) and in others a division (Gymnospermophyta); comprises three subdivisions (or classes): Cycadophytina (class Cycadopsida) and Gnetophytina (class Gnetopsida) and Coniferophytina (class Coniferopsida); in some classifications the Coniferophytina are divided into three groups: Pinophytina (class Pinopsida) and Ginkgophytina (class Ginkgopsida) and Taxophytina (class Taxopsida)

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