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Family: Cistaceae

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) >  Eudicotyledons > Core Eudicots >  Rosids >  Eurosid II > Order: Malvales

Has a mainly north temperate distribution but the family is also native to South America. There are no indigenous species in southern Africa but there are a number that are cultivated.

Genera cultivated in southern Africa

Information from Glen (2002).

Cistus

Eleven species are cultivated in gardens. 

Cistus x purpureus

Tuberaria

One species cultivated: Tuberaria guttata.

 

Helianthemum

Four species cultivated. 

 

Publications

  • Glen, H.F. 2002. Cultivated plants of southern Africa. Jacana, Johannesburg.

 


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