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Annual to shrub, aromatic, of sunny areas, often sandy or chalky substrates; hairs nonglandular, in stellate clumps or not, peltate or not, and/or glandular.
Leaf: simple, alternate or opposite [ whorled], often ± reduced, entire or not, petioled or not, stipuled or not.
Inflorescence: raceme- or panicle-like cymes or flowers 1.
Flower: generally bisexual, ± radial; sepals 3 or 5 (outer 2 often narrower), free, often persistent in fruit, 3 twisted in direction opposite that of petals; petals [0(3)]4–5, generally ephemeral; stamens (3–10) many, free, often sensitive to touch, ± persistent in fruit or not; ovary superior, chambers 1 (or ± 3–12 from intruded parietal placentas), style 0–1, stigma 1(3), lobes 0 or 3–12.
Fruit: loculicidal capsule, valves 3–12.
Seed: 3–many.
8 genera, ± 175 species: temperate, especially se US, Medit; some cultivated (Cistus; Helianthemum; Tuberaria). [Arrington 2004 Ph.D. Dissertation Duke Univ] Fls open in sunshine for < 1 day. —Scientific Editors: Thomas J. Rosatti, Bruce G. Baldwin.
Unabridged references: [Strother FNANM, in press]
Previous taxon: Suaeda taxifolia
Next taxon: Cistus
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) [year] Jepson eFlora, http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/IJM.html [accessed on month, day, year]
Citation for an individual treatment: [Author of taxon treatment] [year]. [Taxon name] in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, [URL for treatment]. Accessed on [month, day, year].
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