Cistus

Accepted species 68 Documented here 20 Family Cistaceae

Accepted species 68 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Cistus salviifolius L. 830 documented
Cistus creticus L. 514 documented
Cistus albidus L. 499 documented
Cistus monspeliensis L. 404 documented
Cistus ladanifer L. 250 documented
Cistus inflatus Pourr. ex J.-P.Demoly 104 documented
Cistus crispus L. 102 documented
Cistus symphytifolius Lam. 80 documented
Cistus halimifolius L. 73 documented
Cistus calycinus L. 57 documented
Cistus tauricus C.Presl 56 documented
Cistus laurifolius L. 50 documented
Cistus clusii Dunal 44 documented
Cistus umbellatus L. 41 documented
Cistus lasianthus Lam. 38 documented
Cistus parviflorus Lam. 31 documented
Cistus populifolius L. 26 documented
Cistus ocymoides Lam. 14 documented
Cistus atriplicifolius Lam. 7 documented
Cistus libanotis L. 7 documented
Cistus horrens Demoly 1 below the evidence gate
Cistus × aguilari O.E.Warb. 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × akamantis Demoly 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × banaresii Demoly 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × candidus (Sweet) Demoly 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × canescens Sweet 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × cebennensis Aubin & J.Prudhomme 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × cheiranthoides Lam. 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × clausonii Font Quer & Maire 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × conradiae Demoly 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × cyprius Lam. 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × dansereaui P.Silva 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × escartianus Demoly 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × florentinus Lam. 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × hybridus Pourr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × incanus L. 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × ingwersenii Demoly 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × laxus Aiton 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × ledon Lam. 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × matritensis Carazo Roman & Jiménez Alb. 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × nigricans Pourr. 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × novus Rouy 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × obtusifolius Sweet 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × pauranthus Demoly 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × platysepalus Sweet 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × pourretii Rouy & Foucaud 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × purpureus Lam. 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × revolii H.J.Coste & Soulié 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × sahucii H.J.Coste & Soulié 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × santae (Sauvage) Demoly 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × sintenisii Litard. 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × skanbergii Lojac. 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × stenophyllus Link 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × timbalii Demoly 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × verguinii Coste 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus × vinyalsii Sennen 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus asper Demoly & R.Mesa 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus atlanticus (Humbert & Maire) Demoly 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus chinamadensis Bañares & P.Romero 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus grancanariae Marrero Rodr., R.S.Almeida & C.Ríos 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus heterophyllus Desf. 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus lasiocalycinus (Boiss. & Reut.) Byng & Christenh. 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus macrocalycinus (Pau) Byng & Christenh. 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus munbyi Pomel 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus ocreatus C.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus osbeckiifolius Christ 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus palmensis Bañares & Demoly 0 below the evidence gate
Cistus pouzolzii Delile 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.