Citation: Sweet, Cistin. t. 33 (1826).

Synonymy: C. hirsutus sensu J. Black, FLS. Aust. 588 (1952).

Common name: None

Description:
Fragrant villous and roughly hairy undershrub to 100 cm high, with somewhat spreading branches; leaves sessile, ovate-oblong to linear-oblong, with long simple and stellate hairs, becoming almost glabrous, 3-nerved, green, paler below, usually 40-80 x 10-20 mm.

Flowers 1-5 on erect peduncles 1-3 cm long; sepals 5, 12-17 mm long, hirsute; the outer 3 sepals larger than the inner, cordate at the base; petals white, broadly obovate, 15-20 mm long; stigma subsessile, 5-lobed.

Capsule hairy, almost completely divided into 5 cells enclosed in the persistent calyx, 8-10 mm long; seeds black, slightly pitted.

	Cistus psilosepalus
Image source: fig 454a in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Distribution:    native to south-western Europe. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: summer.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

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