A genus Fokienia (from either a old Romanised name of Fujian province, China, from in which a 1st specimen was introduced to the American globe) occurs as taxonomic category in the family Cupressaceae. Inside its characteristics, Fokienia is average between a genera of Chamaecyparis and Calocedrus, though genetically much nearer to the previous. A genus is sole of these residing species, Fokienia hodginsii or Fujian Cypress (found inside 1908 by Captain Hodgins), and of these fossil species (Fokienia ravenscragensis).

Fokienia hodginsii is an evergreen tree, 25-30 m tall. It has greyish-brownish bark that peels off when a tree is immature. In older trees, a bark presents longitudinal fissures & becomes redolent. A leaves are arranged inside planate tripinnate branchlet systems, with a pinnae discarded around 1 plane & a sprig tapering above. A leaves within fully grown trees arise in paired intersecting pairs, a alternate pairs non evenly spaced thus appearing when whorls of Four at a equivalent level; it is sub-intense, astir Two-Five millimeter hanker, glossy green above, & by having whiten stomatal bands beneath. the lateral leaves come ovoid & compressed, & facial leaves come oblanceolate using a triangular apex. In immature trees, a leaves come big, as much as 8-10 millimetre yearn & Vi millimeter broad.

A male cones are oval or even cylindric, in Deuce.V millimetre hanker, terminal on the shoots. It keep around from either Three to Five pairs of scales. A female cones come great deal big, 15-25 millimetre yearn & 14-22 millimetre broad, ball-shaped or even sub-globose, & ripen in the 2nd month. It develop Five-8 pairs of scales. There are 2 winged seeds on each shell. It is in Tetrad millimeter yearn, angular & pointed. On the upper & moo shells there are Deuce big resin blisters. A wings come lateral & super unequal.

Distribution and habitat
Fokienia hodginsii is indigen from either southeastern China (provinces of Zhejiang, Guizhou, Yunnan and Fujian) to Northern Vietnam (provinces of Ha Bac, Ha Giang, Ha Tinh, Hoa Binh, Son La, Nghe An, Lao Cai, Lai Chau, Thanh Hoa, Tuyen Quang, Yen Bai and Vinh Phu), west central Vietnam (provinces of Dac Lac, Gia Lai, Lam Dong), and west to northern Laos.

A tree doesn't tolerate shade, & takes modest climate & abundant rainfall to grow better. It occurs primarily in humid soil in montane habitats. Inside Vietnam, it grows in limestone or granite terrain above 900 m altitude.

A fossil metal money Fokienia ravenscragensis was described from either a early Paleocene (60-65 m.a. before present) Ravenscrag formation of southwest Saskatchewan and adjacent Alberta, Canada.

Uses
Laotian and Dao tribesmen use Fujian cypress timber for even wall partitioning or roofing. A timber was erstwhile utilized for coffins. Within Vietnam, these are considered the preciously timber because of its characteristic aroma & its exceptional weight; so these are utilized to produce art works, pieces of furniture, & charcoal of high heat value. These are the threatened metal money around Vietnam.

Distillation, especially of its root, gives an essential oil used in cosmetics and medicine.