Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Marchantiophyta Stotler et Crand. Stotl. in A.J. Shaw et B. Goffinet - liverworts |
| class | Jungermanniopsida Stotler et Crand.-Stotl. |
| subclass | Jungermanniidae Engl. |
| order | Jungermanniales H. Klinggr. |
| suborder | Lophocoleineae Schljakov |
| family | Lepidoziaceae Limpr. in Cohn |
| subfamily | Lepidozioideae Müll.Frib. |
| genus | Lepidozia (Dumort.) Dumort. |
| species | Lepidozia cupressina (Sw.) Lindenb. |
| subspecies | Lepidozia cupressina subsp. natalensis (Steph.) Pócs |