Editing Calocedrus (section)

{{Short description|Genus of conifer trees}}
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{{Automatic taxobox
| name = Incense-cedar
| image = Calocedrus_decurrens_7947.jpg
| image_caption = ''Calocedrus decurrens''<br />California incense cedar
| taxon = Calocedrus
| authority = [[Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz|Kurz]]
|type_species =''[[Calocedrus macrolepis]]''
|type_species_authority =[[Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz|Kurz]]
| synonyms_ref = <ref name=c/>
| synonyms = ''Heyderia'' <small>K.Koch 1873 non Link 1833</small>
}}
[[File:Incense Cedar in Lassen VNP.jpg|upright=0.9|thumb|California incense cedar, in [[Lassen Volcanic National Park]]]]

'''''Calocedrus''''', the '''incense cedar''' (alternatively spelled '''incense-cedar'''), is a [[genus]] of [[conifer]]ous [[tree]]s in the cypress family [[Cupressaceae]] first described as a genus in 1873.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Kurz |first=Wilhelm Sulpiz |author-link=Wilhelm Sulpiz Kurz |date=1873 |title=On a few new plants from Yunan |journal=Journal of Botany, British and Foreign |volume=11 |page=[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34838059 196] |oclc=1642195}}</ref><ref>{{Tropicos|40035335|Calocedrus|Kurz}}</ref> Three species are native to [[East Asia|eastern Asia]] and one to western [[North America]].<ref name=c>{{WCSP|382423|Calocedrus}}</ref>