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Juniperus (juniper)
Taxonomy
Juniperus was named by Linnaeus (1753). It is extant.
It was assigned to Cupressineae by Knowlton (1919); to Cupressaceae by Lakhanpal et al. (1976), Hueber (1983), Chauhan (1991) and Liu et al. (1996); and to Cupressoideae by Gadek et al. (2000).
It was assigned to Cupressineae by Knowlton (1919); to Cupressaceae by Lakhanpal et al. (1976), Hueber (1983), Chauhan (1991) and Liu et al. (1996); and to Cupressoideae by Gadek et al. (2000).
Species
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1753 | Juniperus Linnaeus |
| 1919 | Juniperus Knowlton |
| 1976 | Juniperus Lakhanpal et al. |
| 1983 | Juniperus Hueber p. 272 |
| 1991 | Juniperus Chauhan |
| 1996 | Juniperus Liu et al. |
| 2000 | Juniperus Gadek et al. pp. 1048, 1056 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
G. Juniperus Linnaeus 1753 [juniper]
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Juniperus californica Carrière 1850
†Juniperus haydenii Lesquereux 1874
†Juniperus hypnoides Heer 1882
Juniperus virginiana Linnaeus 1753
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
No ecological data are available
Age range
Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Chadronian to the top of the Holocene or 37.20000 to 0.00000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 33.9 Ma
Collections (29 total)
| Time interval | Ma | Country or state | Original ID and collection number |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chadronian | USA (Colorado) | Hypnum haydenii (24209) | |
| Oligocene - Miocene | USA (Montana) | Juniperus nevadensis (23972) | |
| Late/Upper Oligocene - Early/Lower Miocene | USA (Montana) | Juniperus nevadensis (23330) | |
| Miocene - Oligocene | USA (Montana) | Juniperus nevadensis (23975) | |
| Miocene | USA (Montana) | Juniperus nevadensis (23973) | |
| Burdigalian | USA (Nevada) | Juniperus desatoyana (27179) Juniperus nevadensis (27701 27702) | |
| Burdigalian | Saudi Arabia | Juniperus sp. (47096) | |
| Barstovian | USA (Nevada) | Juniperus desatoyana (27630) | |
| Langhian - Serravallian | Poland (Silesia) | Juniperus oxycedrus (28442) | |
| Serravallian | Germany (Brandenburg) | Juniperus oxycedrus (23054) | |
| Early/Lower Clarendonian | USA (Nevada) | Juniperus nevadensis (27661 27662) | |
| Tortonian - Messinian | Germany (North Rhine Westphalia) | Juniperus oxycedrus (27919) | |
| Late/Upper Miocene | USA (California) | Juniperus sp. (35270) | |
| Zanclean | USA (North Carolina) | Juniperus virginiana (52582) | |
| Pliocene | China (Hunan) | Juniperus sp. (223822) | |
| Pliocene - Calabrian | Tanzania | Juniperus sp. (22335) | |
| Pliocene - Pleistocene | Congo-Kinshasa | Juniperus sp. (22346) | |
| Gelasian - Calabrian | Tanzania | Juniperus sp. (21975) | |
| Pleistocene | India (Jammu and Kashmir) | Juniperus sp. (228772 228956) | |
| Quaternary | India (Himachal Pradesh) | Juniperus sp. (228760) | |
| Calabrian | Tanzania | Juniperus sp. (22336 22337) | |
| Late/Upper Pleistocene | United Kingdom (England) | Juniperus communis (164905) | |
| Holocene | India (Himachal Pradesh) | Juniperus sp. (228780 228781) |