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 | Pinophyta Reveal - conifers |
| class | Pinopsida Burnett |
| order | Pinales Gorozh. |
| family | Taxaceae S. F. Gray |
| genus | Cephalotaxus Siebold & Zucc. ex Endl. - cephalotaxus |
| species | Cephalotaxus harringtonii (Knight ex J.Forbes) K.Koch - Japanese Plum-yew |
| varietas | Cephalotaxus harringtonii var. harringtonii |