| Common Names - Umbrella Tree | Synonyms - |
| Authority - Siebold & Zucc. | Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? Gymnosperm |
| Plant forms - Tree | Total Number of species - 1 |
| World Distribution - Central & S. Japan | |
| Comments - Listed also under Taxodiaceae It is the sole member of the family Sciadopityaceae and genus Sciadopitys, a living fossil with no close relatives, and known in the fossil record for about 230 million years | |
| 1 - Sciadopitys verticulata. |