Key to Cistus
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(For a list of species in Cistus, use the above link.)
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1' Sepals 5; flowers generally in panicle-like
cymes 
1. In flowering plants excluding Asteraceae and some other groups, a branched inflorescence in which the central or uppermost flower opens before the peripheral or lowermost flowers on any axis. see 2. In Asteraceae and some other groups, a cyme-like inflorescence is one in which the central or uppermost inflorescence units (e.g., heads in Asteraceae, umbels enclosed by involucres in Eriogonum), instead of individual flowers, develop and mature before the peripheral or lowermost inflorescence units on any axis.
2' Style ± 0; petals white (often drying ± yellow), with red or yellow near base or not
3. Leaf petioled,
blade 
Expanded portion of a leaf, petal, or other structure, generally flat but sometimes rolled, cylindric, wavy, or cupped.
ovate 
Egg-shaped (i.e., widest below the middle) in two dimensions (i.e., in one plane), as a leaf.
to
elliptic 
In the shape of a flattened circle or ellipse; wider than linear
, main
veins from base generally 1;
pedicel 
Stalk of an individual flower in an inflorescence, or the corresponding structure in fruit.
10–100 mm
..... C. salviifolius 3' Leaf
sessile 
Without a petiole, peduncle, pedicel, or other kind of stalk.
,
linear 
Elongate, with nearly parallel sides; narrower than elliptic or oblong.
to lance-linear or linear- to ovate-oblong, main veins from base generally 3; pedicel 5–15 mm
..... C. monspeliensis
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