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Cupressus duclouxiana Hickel

Chinese cypress; Yunnan Cypress

Cupressaceae · China South-Central, Tibet

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Summary

Cupressus duclouxiana, the Chinese cypress or Yunnan cypress, is a species of conifer in the cypress family, Cupressaceae. It is endemic to China, where it is known from Yunnan and Sichuan. It grows in deep river gorges. Its habitat is mountain forest where it occurs alongside the Sikang pine (Pinus densata) and various oaks, chinquapins, and chestnuts.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cupressus duclouxiana", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 87 of the 88 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Tibet · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker28.23, 98.853 · in the densest population, 68 records (77% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 88 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 54 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 545 km away. 12 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 87 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 88 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: 江上清风1961, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3); Kcx36, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Cupressus 9 in the reference

Cupressus atlantica Cupressus atlantica Cupressaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, MPFCupressus austrotibetica Cupressus austrotibetica Cupressaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, 牛糞Cupressus cashmeriana Cupressus cashmeriana Kashmir cypress Photo: CC0, author not statedCupressus chengiana Cupressus chengiana Cheng Cypress Photo: CC0, DaderotCupressus dupreziana Cupressus dupreziana Saharan Cypress Photo: CC BY, Jose Luis Leon de la LuzCupressus funebris Cupressus funebris Chinese weeping cypress Photo: CC BY-SA, 阿橋 HQ Cupressus majestica Cupressaceae Cupressus sempervirens Cupressus sempervirens Italian cypress Photo: CC0, author not statedCupressus torulosa Cupressus torulosa Himalayan cypress Photo: CC BY, Sagnik Dutta Roy

Names & registers

Also known as Cupressus duclouxiana subsp. likiangensis. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Cupressaceae
Described by
Hickel
Native to
China South-Central, Tibet
Wild records
88 in range · 54 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 20 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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