# Cistus crispus

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Species of flowering plants in the rock rose family Cistaceae

Cistus crispus Scientific classification Kingdom: Plantae Clade: Embryophytes Clade: Tracheophytes Clade: Spermatophytes Clade: Angiosperms Clade: Eudicots Clade: Rosids Order: Malvales Family: Cistaceae Genus: Cistus Species: C. crispus Binomial name Cistus crispus L.[1]

***Cistus crispus*** is a [shrubby](/source/Shrub) [species](/source/Species) of [flowering plant](/source/Flowering_plant) in the family [Cistaceae](/source/Cistaceae), with pink to purple flowers, native to south-western Europe and western north Africa.

## Description

*Cistus crispus* grows up to 50 cm (1 ft 8 in) tall. Its grey-green leaves are wavy (undulate), oblong to elliptical in shape, usually 1–4 cm (0.4–1.6 in) long by 4–15 mm (0.2–0.6 in) wide. They have three prominent veins and are covered a mixture of short stellate hairs and longer simple hairs. The flowers are arranged in few-flowered [cymes](/source/Cyme_(botany)), each flower being 3–4 cm (1.2–1.6 in) across with five purplish-red [petals](/source/Petal) and five hair-covered [sepals](/source/Sepal).[2]

## Taxonomy

*Cistus crispus* was first described by [Carl Linnaeus](/source/Carl_Linnaeus) in 1753 in *[Species Plantarum](/source/Species_Plantarum)* (p. 524).[1] The specific epithet *crispus* means "curly" or "finely waved", referring to the leaves.[3]

It hybridizes with *[Cistus albidus](/source/Cistus_albidus)* to form the hybrid [*Cistus* × *incanus*](/source/Cistus_%C3%97_incanus).[4]

## Phylogeny

A 2011 [molecular phylogenetic study](/source/Molecular_phylogenetics) placed *C. crispus* as the deepest branching member of the clade of purple and pink flowered *Cistus* species (the "purple pink clade" or PPC).[5]

Species-level cladogram of Cistus species. Halimium spp. Halimium spp. PPC Cistus crispus Cistus heterophyllus Cistus albidus Cistus creticus Cistus asper Cistus chinamadensis Cistus horrens Cistus ocreatus Cistus osbeckiifolius Cistus palmensis Cistus symphytifolius WWPC Cistus clusii Cistus munbyi Cistus inflatus Cistus ladanifer Cistus laurifolius Cistus libanotis Cistus monspeliensis Cistus parviflorus Cistus populifolius Cistus pouzolzii Cistus salviifolius Cistus sintenisii Purple Pink Clade White Whitish Pink Clade Species-level cladogram of Cistus species, based on plastid and nuclear DNA sequences.[4][6][5][7]

## Distribution

*Cistus crispus* is native to north Africa[6] and south-western Europe, including [Portugal](/source/Portugal), [Spain](/source/Spain), [France](/source/France), [Corsica](/source/Corsica), [Italy](/source/Italy) and [Sicily](/source/Sicily).[2]

## References

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-TPL_kew-2723349_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-TPL_kew-2723349_1-1) ["*Cistus crispus*"](http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/kew-2723349), *The Plant List*, retrieved 2015-03-02

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-Warb68_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-Warb68_2-1) Warburg, E.F. (1968), "Cistus albidus", in Tutin, T.G.; Heywood, V.H.; Burges, N.A.; Valentine, D.H.; Walters, S.M. & Webb, D.A. (eds.), *Flora Europaea, Volume 2: Rosaceae to Umbelliferae*, Cambridge University Press, p. 283, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-521-06662-4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-06662-4)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-Coom94p42_3-0)** Coombes, Allen J. (1994), *Dictionary of Plant Names*, London: Hamlyn Books, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-0-600-58187-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-600-58187-1), p. 42

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-GuzmVarg05_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-GuzmVarg05_4-1) Guzmán, B. & Vargas, P. (2005), "Systematics, character evolution, and biogeography of *Cistus* L. (Cistaceae) based on ITS, trnL-trnF, and matK sequences", *Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution*, **37** (3): 644–660, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1016/j.ympev.2005.04.026](https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.ympev.2005.04.026), [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [16055353](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16055353)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-CiveLeclDemoAgna11_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-CiveLeclDemoAgna11_5-1) Civeyrel, Laure; Leclercq, Julie; Demoly, Jean-Pierre; Agnan, Yannick; Quèbre, Nicolas; Pélissier, Céline & Otto, Thierry (2011), "Molecular systematics, character evolution, and pollen morphology of *Cistus* and *Halimium* (Cistaceae)", *Plant Systematics and Evolution*, **295** (1–4): 23–54, [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1007/s00606-011-0458-7](https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs00606-011-0458-7), [hdl](/source/Hdl_(identifier)):[2078.1/219851](https://hdl.handle.net/2078.1%2F219851), [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [21995828](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:21995828)

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-GuzmLled09_6-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-GuzmLled09_6-1) Guzman, B.; Lledo, M.D. & Vargas, P. (2009). ["Adaptive Radiation in Mediterranean *Cistus* (Cistaceae)"](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2719431). *PLOS ONE*. **4** (7) e6362. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[2009PLoSO...4.6362G](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009PLoSO...4.6362G). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1371/journal.pone.0006362](https://doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0006362). [PMC](/source/PMC_(identifier)) [2719431](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2719431). [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [19668338](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19668338).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-GuzmVarg09_7-0)** Guzmán, B. & Vargas, P. (2009). "Historical biogeography and character evolution of Cistaceae (Malvales) based on analysis of plastid rbcL and trnL-trnF sequences". *Organisms Diversity & Evolution*. **9** (2): 83–99. [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1016/j.ode.2009.01.001](https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.ode.2009.01.001).

## External links

- Page, R.G. (n.d.) [2002 onwards], ["*Cistus crispus* L."](https://web.archive.org/web/20150402111354/http://www.cistuspage.org.uk//Cistus%20crispus.htm), *The Cistus & Halimium Website*, archived from [the original](http://www.cistuspage.org.uk//Cistus%20crispus.htm) on 2015-04-02, retrieved 2015-03-09

Taxon identifiers Cistus crispus Wikidata: Q5770408 Wikispecies: Cistus crispus APDB: 134966 BOLD: 420978 CoL: VLKK EoL: 2867531 EPPO: CSTCR EUNIS: 168782 GBIF: 3595767 GRIN: 10634 iNaturalist: 82672 IPNI: 168232-1 NCBI: 335185 Observation.org: 116583 Open Tree of Life: 177677 PFI: 3231 Plant List: kew-2723349 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:168232-1 Tropicos: 7600148 WFO: wfo-0000607287

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