Cupressaceae -- the cypress family (includes Taxodiaceae) (28/156; cosmopolitan)
Plants seed plants, monoecious or dioecious
Habit shrubs or trees
Leaves alternate, opposite, or whorled; simple and scale-like, awl-shaped or linear
Pollen borne on strobili (look like cones) with many scales; 2-9 pollen sacs per scale, on underside of scale (abaxial)
Ovules borne on cones (scale/bract complex) usually woody at maturity (fleshy in Juniperus) with several to many scales, flattened or often peltate; wholly adnate to subtending bract; 2-many ovules per cone scale, on top of scale (adaxial)
Seeds small, wingless or narrowly winged