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The leaves and berries of a common juniper (Juniperus communis) in Estonia. The common juniper is the type species of juniper, which is thought to be related to extinct plants of the Juniperites genus.
1835, Adam Sedgwick, Roderick Impey Murchison, quoting Adolphe-Théodore Brongniart, “XVIII.—A Sketch of the Structure of the Eastern Alps; with Sections through the Newer Formations on the Northern Flanks of the Chain, and through the Tertiary Deposits of Styria, &c. &c. With Supplementary Observations, Sections, and a Map”, in Transactions of the Geological Society of London (2nd Series), volume III (in English), London: Printed by Richard Taylor, Red Lion Court, Fleet Street. Sold at the apartments of the Geological Society, Somerset House, →OCLC, page 373:
After an examination of all the specimens, I am still in doubt as to the greater number of them; for, either from their being too incomplete, or from not having made a sufficient number of comparisons, I am unable to arrive at very precise results. They appear to me to belong to eleven species. / 1. Juniperites subulata. The form and the insertion of the leaves appear to me to indicate a Juniperus, allied to, though distinct from, that found in the lignite formations of Bohemia, which I have named in my "Prodromus" Juniperites acutifolia. I possess specimens from the freshwater formation of Armissau near Narbonne, apparently of the same species.
1851, G. F. Richardson, Thomas Wright, “Fossil Botany”, in An Introduction to Geology, and Its Associate Sciences, Mineralogy, Fossil Biology, and Palæontology, new, rev. and considerably enl. edition (in English), London: H[enry] G[eorge] Bohn, York Street, Covent Garden, →OCLC, page 171:
When the leaves and small and densely imbricated, they are generally considered to belong either to lycopodiaceæ or coniferæ; but there is so little to distinguish these families in a fossil state, that there is scarcely any means of demonstrating to which of these such genera as lycopodites, lycopodendron, juniperites, taxites, &c., and the like, actually belong.
The Eocene epoch in general is characterized by the predominance of Algæ and marine Naiadaceæ, such as Caulinites and Zosterites; by numerous Coniferæ, the greater part resembling existing genera among the Cupressineæ, and appearing in the form of Juniperites, Thuites, Cupressites, Callitrites, Frenelites, and Solenostrobus; […]
The word juniperite, defined in The Century Dictionary (1889–1891) as “ petrified trunk or fossil impression belonging to the genus Juniperus or Juniperites”, which is itself cited by the Oxford English Dictionary, does not appear to be attested in English.
