page_title: Cistus heterophyllus
section_title: Taxonomy and phylogeny
hierarchical_section_title: Cistus heterophyllus / Taxonomy and phylogeny
caption_attribution_description: English: Illustration of Cistus heterophyllus (probably subsp. heterophyllus as said to be "from Algeria")
context_page_description: Cistus heterophyllus is a shrubby species of flowering plant in the family Cistaceae.
context_section_description: Cistus heterophyllus was first described by René Louiche Desfontaines in 1798. The specific epithet heterophyllus means "with leaves of different shapes", the upper being unstalked, the lower shortly stalked. 
  Two subspecies are accepted:
  Cistus heterophyllus subsp. carthaginensis (Pau) M.B.Crespo & Mateo – mainland Spain
  Cistus heterophyllus subsp. heterophyllus – north Africa
  The two subspecies have been artificially crossed forming a hybrid subspecies called C. h. nothosubsp. marzoi.
  A 2011 molecular phylogenetic study placed C. heterophyllus in the purple and pink flowered clade (PPC) of Cistus species, in a subclade with C. albidus and C. creticus.
caption: Cistus heterophyllus from Sweet's Cystineae; probably subsp. heterophyllus as said to be "from Algeria"
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