Les cistes ou cystes sont des arbrisseaux dicotylédones du genre Cistus et de la famille des Cistacées poussant le plus souvent sur le pourtour méditerranéen. Les cistes ont un feuillage persistant et fleurissent entre le printemps et l'été (avril-juin), leurs fleurs sont souvent voyantes, roses ou blanches, à cinq pétales. Ils adorent les sols secs et ensoleillés. De plus ils sont pyrophytes, ayant la particularité de se régénérer facilement et même de se multiplier après les incendies. Ce sont des espèces courantes dans les maquis ou les garrigues méditerranéens. Classés traditionnellement dans l'ordre des Violales, les cistes appartiennent aujourd'hui à celui des Malvales.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Cistus has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
DNA specimens1
eDNA detections6
Countries1
07Deep time5.33–0 Ma
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
Fossil range5.33–0 Ma Pliocene, Pleistocene, Holocene
Dated fossil finds8
StatusStill living record runs to the present
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The solid bar is the fossil range: the span between the oldest and the youngest fossil that palaeontologists have assigned to Cistus. Above itBeside it, each dot is one dated fossil find — few enough to count, so they are drawn individually rather than as a graph.
fossil range (PBDB)each dot = one dated find
How it livedPBDB
Dietphotoautotroph
08Occurrence & distribution
Record type5 973 records
Wild obs. + sensor5 219
Museum / vouchered728
Cultivated / captive16
Fossil8
Other2
Origin
Introduced13
Range
Area of Occupancy AOO11 656 km²
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Coordinate accuracy73% within 1 km
≤100 m 2 216≤1 km 315≤10 km 933>10 km 7
3 471 georeferenced · 1 748 without coordinates
Open the mapobservation + sensor5 219
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Coordinate accuracy52% within 1 km
≤100 m 29≤1 km 111≤10 km 106>10 km 21
267 georeferenced · 461 without coordinates
Open the institutions mapphysical evidence728
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Coordinate accuracy78% within 1 km
≤1 km 7≤10 km 2
9 georeferenced · 7 without coordinates
Open the mapnot free-living16
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
10Collections & institutions
Holding institutions37 of 66 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
Institution
Specimens
MAlocation not on record
161
Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record
86
ISAlocation not on record
78
CICYTEXlocation not on record
41
València, ES
33
Barcelona, ES
32
Institut und Museum fuer Geologie und Palaeontologielocation not on record
28
Vitoria, ES
28
Entomological Society of Latvialocation not on record
23
Salamanca, ES
23
Wlocation not on record
11
Badajoz, ES
11
College of the Atlantic, Museumlocation not on record
11
BClocation not on record
11
Canberra, AU
8
Santiago de Compostela, ES
8
Sevilla, ES
8
Universidad del Pais Vasco (UPV/EHU)location not on record
7
San Sebastián, ES
7
BDBClocation not on record
6
Auckland, NZ
6
Madrid, ES
6
Hobart, AU
6
South Kensington, GB
4
San Jose State University, Museum of Birds and Mammalslocation not on record
4
Madrid, ES
4
Mlocation not on record
3
Bothell, US
3
JBCLMlocation not on record
3
San Luis Obispo, US
3
Moscow State Universitylocation not on record
3
Córdoba, ES
3
Kew, GB
3
Bourges, FR
2
Pamplona, ES
2
Granada, ES
2
Alicante, ES
2
San Diego, US
2
MeiseBGlocation not on record
2
Christchurch, NZ
2
GZUlocation not on record
2
Berlin, DE
2
Universidad de La Salle (La Salle)location not on record
1
Museo Achille Folettolocation not on record
1
Turlock, US
1
Adelaide, AU
1
LDlocation not on record
1
Durham, US
1
WTUlocation not on record
1
JBAlocation not on record
1
Beijing Natural History Museumlocation not on record
1
Kensington, AU
1
BRLUlocation not on record
1
BRNUlocation not on record
1
Denver, US
1
Arcata, US
1
Vancouver, CA
1
Saint Louis, US
1
LBVlocation not on record
1
Bloomington, US
1
Jaén, ES
1
Tartu, EE
1
Phyletisches Museum Jenalocation not on record
1
Davis, US
1
Universite de Montpellierlocation not on record
1
RJBJCIlocation not on record
1
66 institutions · 714 of 728 vouchered records shown · 10 without an institution code
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
09Environmental DNA6 detections
Where the DNA of Cistus was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Detections DNA found6
Studies independent surveys1
Countries1
Signal confidence: weakweighed across independent studies, places & mapped detections
Where its DNA was found
0 of 6 detections have coordinates
Open the map1 country0
How strong is each trace?
DNA read depthRead counts were not reported for this species — the map shows presence only, not how strong each trace was.
Modelled climatemodelled
−15°Ctemperature across detection sites+40°C
Temperature median15.2 °C 15.2–15.2
Seasonal swing summer↔winter21.1 °C
Max temp (day)20.1 °C
Min temp (night)9.00 °C
Precipitation33.4 mm/mo
Air humidity52.9 %
Moisture balance-61.7 mm/mo
Vapour deficit953 Pa
Wind speed2.00 m/s
Cloud cover38.3 %
CHELSA 1981–2010, ~9 km grid, at location & month of 5 detection points · median with p10–p90 · reflects where sampling happened, not only the true niche
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.
