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Type: Article
Published: 2015-11-04
Page range: 191–195
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Remarks on the nomenclatural type of Cistus origanifolius Lamarck (Cistaceae)

Servicio de Vida Silvestre, Centro para la Investigación y Experimentación Forestal (CIEF), Generalitat Valenciana, Avda. Comarques del País Valencià 114, 46930 Quart de Poblet, Valencia, Spain
Cistaceae Cistus Helianthemum lectotype nomenclature Eudicots Asia Europe Africa

Abstract

The genus Helianthemum Miller (1754: without page) (Cistaceae Jussieu [1789: 294]) is a monophyletic group limited to the Old World (Arrington & Kubitzki 2003, Guzmán & Vargas 2009, Sorrie 2011). It includes about 110 species and subspecies of small herbs or subshrubs, which are distributed from Macaronesia to C Asia, including Europe and North Africa, and mainly occurring in the W Mediterranean, particularly in the Iberian Peninsula (Greuter et al. 1984, López González 1993, Arrington & Kubitzki 2003, Parejo-Farnés et al. 2013).