Taxonavigation

Familia: Cistaceae
Genera: Cistus – Crocanthemum – Fumana – Halimium – Helianthemum – Hudsonia – Lechea – Pakaraimaea – Tuberaria
Nothogenera: × Cistanthemum – × Halimiocistus

Name

Cistaceae Juss. Gen. Pl.: 294. 1789, nom. cons.

• Type genus: Cistus L.
  

Note: Pakaraimaea transferred here from Dipterocarpaceae (APG, 2016 & Ducousso et al., 2004)

References

• Jussieu, A.L. de 1789. Genera Plantarum, secundum ordines naturales disposita juxta methodum in Horto Regio Parisiensi exaratam. (Paris). 498 pp. BHL Reference page. 
• Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. 2016. An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV. Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 181(1): 1–20. DOI: 10.1111/boj.12385 Reference page. 
• Ducousso, M., Béna, G., Bourgeois, C., Buyck, B., Eyssartier, G., Vincelette, M., Rabevohitra, R., Randrihasipara, L., Dreyfus, B. & Prin, Y. 2004. The last common ancestor of Sarcolaenaceae and Asian dipterocarp trees was ectomycorrhizal before the India-Madagascar separation, about 88 million years ago. Molecular Ecology 13(1): 231–236. DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-294X.2003.02032.x Full text PDF from ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Stevens, P.F. 2001 onwards. Angiosperm Phylogeny Website. Version 14, July 2017 [and more or less continuously updated since]. Online. Reference page. 

Vernacular names

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