{{Short description|Subclass of plants}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Wollemia nobilis (Kew Gardens).JPG | image_caption = ''Wollemia nobilis'' | taxon = Cupressidae | authority = Doweld | subdivision_ranks = Orders and families | subdivision = * Araucariales ** Araucariaceae ** Podocarpaceae * Cupressales ** Sciadopityaceae ** Cupressaceae ** Cephalotaxaceae ** Taxaceae }}

'''Cupressidae''', also known as '''cupressophytes'''<ref name="Leslie2018">{{cite journal |last1=Leslie |first1=Andrew B. |last2=Beaulieu |first2=Jeremy |last3=Holman |first3=Garth |last4=Campbell |first4=Christopher S. |last5=Mei |first5=Wenbin |last6=Raubeson |first6=Linda R. |last7=Mathews |first7=Sarah |title=An overview of extant conifer evolution from the perspective of the fossil record |journal=American Journal of Botany |date=29 August 2018 |volume=105 |issue=9 |pages=1531-1544 |doi=10.1002/ajb2.1143 |doi-access=free }}</ref> and '''conifers II''' (as opposed to conifers I<ref name="Wu2016">{{cite journal |last1=Wu |first1=Chung-Shien |last2=Chaw |first2=Shu-Miaw |title=Large-Scale Comparative Analysis Reveals the Mechanisms Driving Plastomic Compaction, Reduction, and Inversions in Conifers II (Cupressophytes) |journal=Genome Biology and Evolution |date=24 December 2016 |volume=8 |issue=12 |pages=3740-3750 |doi=10.1093/gbe/evw278 |doi-access=free |pmc=5491842 }}</ref>) is a proposed subclass of conifers comprising the orders of Araucariales and Cupressales. It was originally erected by Alexander Doweld and contained just Cupressales. In 2022, a study expanded it to include Araucariales and Cupressales.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Doweld |first1=Alexander |title=Prosyllabus tracheophytorum : tentamen systematis plantarum vascularium (Tracheophyta) |date=2001 |publisher=GEOS |location=Moscow |isbn=5891182831 |page=XIX |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MBAIAf3OAPcC&pg=PR19}}</ref><ref name="Christenhusz2011">{{cite journal |last1=Christenhusz |first1=M. J. M. |last2=Reveal |first2=J. L. |last3=Farjon |first3=A. |last4=Gardner |first4=M. F. |last5=Mill |first5=R. R. |last6=Chase |first6=M. W. |title=A new classification and linear sequence of extant gymnosperms |journal=Phytotaxa |date=18 February 2011 |volume=19 |issue=1 |pages=55 |doi=10.11646/phytotaxa.19.1.3|s2cid=86797396 |doi-access=free |hdl=10138/28041 |hdl-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Phylogenomics2022">{{cite journal |last1=Yang |first1=Yong |last2=Ferguson |first2=David Kay |last3=Liu |first3=Bing |last4=Mao |first4=Kang-Shan |last5=Gao |first5=Lian-Ming |last6=Zhang |first6=Shou-Zhou |last7=Wan |first7=Tao |last8=Rushforth |first8=Keith |last9=Zhang |first9=Zhi-Xiang |title=Recent advances on phylogenomics of gymnosperms and a new classification |journal=Plant Diversity |date=July 2022 |volume=44 |issue=4 |pages=340–350 |doi=10.1016/j.pld.2022.05.003|pmid=35967253 |pmc=9363647 |bibcode=2022PlDiv..44..340Y }}</ref>

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