Taxon: Taxodium mucronatum Ten.

Common names:

• Mexican-cypress   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – English
  
• Montezuma bald-cypress   (Source: Names Beetle ) – English
  
• Montezuma-cypress   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• mo xi ge luo yu shan   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• ahuehuete   (Source: F NGalicia ) – Spanish
  
• ciprés   (Source: Monog Cupressaceae ) – Spanish
  
• penjamu   (Source: F NGalicia ) – Spanish
  
• sabino   (Source: F NGalicia ) – Spanish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide F NGalicia)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Herbs Commerce ed2; Monog Cupressaceae)
  

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Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas [along the Rio Grande]
  Northern Mexico: Mexico - Coahuila, Durango, Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa
  Southern Mexico: Mexico - Chiapas, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan, Morelos, Oaxaca, Veracruz
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Guatemala

• also cultivated

References:

• Beetle, A. A. 1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. [mentions as T. distichum var. mexicanum].
• Farjon, A. 2005. A monograph of Cupressaceae and Sciadopitys. 129–132.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• McVaugh, R. 1983–. Flora Novo-Galiciana.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Taxodium mucronatum.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Taxodium mucronatum.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Taxodium mucronatum.

Synonyms:

• (=) Taxodiomeria peizhongii Z. J. Ye et al.
  

Check other web resources for Taxodium mucronatum Ten.:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Gymnosperm Database of Christopher J. Earle
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Taxodium mucronatum cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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