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===Extant species=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Image !! Name !! Description !! Distribution |- |[[File:Calocedrus decurrens (young female cones).jpg|120px]]|| ''[[Calocedrus decurrens]]'', California incense cedar (syn. ''Libocedrus decurrens'') || It is a large tree, typically reaching heights of 40β60 m and a trunk diameter of up to 3 m (maxima, 69 m tall and 3.9 m diameter), and with a broad conic crown of spreading branches. The leaves are bright green on both sides of the shoots, and the cones 2β2.5 cm long. It is by far the most widely known species in the genus, and is often simply called "incense cedar" without the regional qualifier. ||western North America |- |[[File:Calocedrus macrolepis var formosana4.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Calocedrus formosana]]'', Taiwan incense cedar ||It is very similar to ''C. macrolepis'', and some botanists treat it as a variety of that, ''C. macrolepis'' var. ''formosana''. It is a medium-sized tree, growing to 25β30 m tall, and is rare in the wild, occurring only as scattered trees in mixed forests. The leaves are glaucous green on the upper side of the shoots, and conspicuously marked with bright white stomatal patches on the underside. The cones are 1.5β2 cm long, carried on a 1β1.5 cm stem.<ref>{{eFloras|2|200005407|Calocedrus macrolepis var. formosana |first1=Liguo |last1=Fu |first2=Yong-fu |last2=Yu |first3=Robert P. |last3=Adams |first4=Aljos |last4=Farjon |volume=4}}</ref> ||[[Taiwan]] |- |[[File:Calocedrus macrolepis kz1.jpg|120px]] ||''[[Calocedrus macrolepis]]'', Chinese incense cedar ||It is also a medium-size tree to 25β30 m tall, and like ''C. formosana'', is rare in the wild. The leaves and cones are similar to ''C. formosana'', differing most obviously in the shorter cone stem, only 0.5 cm long.<ref>{{eFloras|2|200005406|Calocedrus macrolepis |first1=Liguo |last1=Fu |first2=Yong-fu |last2=Yu |first3=Robert P. |last3=Adams |first4=Aljos |last4=Farjon |volume=4}}</ref> ||southwest [[China]] (from [[Guangdong]] west to [[Yunnan]]), and also in northern [[Vietnam]], northern [[Laos]], extreme northern [[Thailand]] and northeastern [[Myanmar]] |- | ||''[[Calocedrus rupestris]]'' || The most recently discovered living species of ''Calocedrus'', first described in 2004. It occurs exclusively on rocky limestone ([[karst]]) terrain, a habitat that has a very high level of endemism. The close proximity of these populations to the [[China|Chinese]] and [[Laos|Laotian]] borders indicates that the species may occur in those countries as well. It is an evergreen, monoecious tree up to 25 m tall with a broadly rounded crown. The epithet "rupestris" means "rock-dwelling".<ref>Averyanov, H.T. Nguyen & L.K. Phan. Issues of Basic Research in Life Sciences with direction in upland agriculture and forestry. Proceedings, the 2004th [sic] National Conference on Life Sciences Thai Nguyen University, September 23, 2004 41β43, 1.</ref><ref>{{WCSP|381482|Calocedrus rupestris}}</ref> ||Vietnam |- |}
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