Cisteae (Tribe)

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A Tribe in the Kingdom Plantae.

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Taxonomy

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The Tribe Cisteae is a member of the Subfamily Ulmoideae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Cisteae:

Domain: Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae Haeckel, 1866
  - Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
    - Phylum: Tracheophyta Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
      - Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
        Infraphylum: Radiatopses Kenrick & Crane, 1997
        Class: Magnoliopsida Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
        Subclass: Dilleniidae Takhtajan, 1967
        Superorder: Malvanae Takhtajan, 1967
        Order: Cistales H.g.l. Reichenbach, 1828
        Suborder: Cistineae
        Family: Cistaceae (SIS-tus) Adans., 1763, Nom. Cons.
        Subfamily: Ulmoideae
        Tribe: Cisteae

The Tribe Cisteae is further organized into finer groupings including:

Genus (4): Cistus · Fumana · Helianthemum · Tuberaria
Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 990 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Tribe Cisteae.

Genera

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Cistus

Fumana

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Helianthemum

Shrubs or subshrubs, rarely perennial or annual herbs. Leaves opposite or upper ones alternate, stipulate or estipulate. Flowers solitary or inflorescences cymose, racemose, corymbose, or headlike, sometimes paniculate, few- to many-flowered. Sepals 5; outer 2 ca. 1/2 size of inner 3; inner 3 subequal, 3-6-veined, accrescent in fruit. Petals 5, yellow, orange-yellow, or pink. Styles filiform; stigmas large, capitate. Capsule 3-angled, 3-valved, 1-loculed or imperfectly 3-loculed. Seeds many.^[1] [more]

Tuberaria

Tuberaria (rockrose) is a of about 112 species of annual or perennial plants in the rockrose family Cistaceae, native to western and southern Europe. They occur on dry, stony sites, often close to the sea. [more]

At least 31 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Tuberaria.

More info about the Genus Tuberaria may be found here.

Footnotes

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"Helianthemum". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 70. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.

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