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Definition of Cistaceae
1. Noun. Shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean.
Generic synonyms: Dilleniid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Hypericales, Order Hypericales, Order Parietales, Parietales
Member holonyms: Cistus, Genus Cistus, Genus Helianthemum, Genus Hudsonia, Hudsonia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cistaceae
Literary usage of Cistaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Cistaceae Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 91. 1836. ROCK-ROSE FAMILY. Shrubs or low
woody herbs, with alternate or opposite simple leaves, and solitary racemose ..."
2. An Introduction to Botany by John ( Lindley (1839)
"... sometimes immediately below the first protuberance, at other times at some
distance from it (as, for instance, in many Polygonaceae and Cistaceae), ..."
3. An Introduction to Botany by John ( Lindley (1839)
"... the ovule has but one integument, as in Coniferae, Composite, Lobeliaceae,
Gentianaceae, &c.; and in others two, as in Polygonaceae, Cistaceae, ..."
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