Species: Cistus ladanifer

Family: Cistaceae  
Genus:  Cistus
Species description: Stems up to 250 cm, erect, very viscid, Leaves 40-80(120) x 6-25 mm, linear-lanceolate, 3-veined for 1/3 their length, green and glabrous above, densely white-tomentose beneath, subsessile. Sepals 3. Flowers 7-10 cm in diameter, solitary, white, with or without a crimson spot at the base of each petal. Style very short. Ovary 10-locular

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Distribution: S.W. Europe. Ga Hs Lu

Found: S.Spain

Date: 1975

Flora Europea:2-284

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Pictures: A.Voswinkel, The Netherlands

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