The Italian Cyprus Is the Truest Cypress

Monotypic means that there's a single type in a genus. In this case, the italian cypress is the type species for cypress. So then that also makes it the everything else thati could be closely related. They have then decided that the cypresses are the type genus for that whole family. Now the family is named after that. Pinasia is the same thing. Pine is the archetypa thing for things in the pine family. If the closer they are to pine, but not so close that they are considered pinus, the genus. The capresor caprestia, is the family. It was one of the first non european species