Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 1: 523 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 234 [secondary reference]

Tovey, J.R. in Ewart, A.J., White, J. & Rees, B. (1909), Appendix I, in Contributions to the Flora of Australia No. 11. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 22(1): 24 [secondary reference]

Green, M.L. in Ramsbottom, J., Wilmott, A.J., Wakefield, E.M. & Sprague, T.A. (ed.) (August 1929), The application of Linnean generic names to be determined by means of specified Standard-species. Nomenclature: Proposals by British Botanists: 162 [secondary reference]

• Type: Cistus crispus L.

Dansereau, P.M. (1939), Monographie du genre Cistus. Boissiera: 1-90 [secondary reference]

Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 588 [secondary reference]

• Etymology: "From Cistos or Cisthos, Greco-Latin name of some species of this genus."

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 396 [secondary reference]

George, A.S. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1982), Bixaceae. Flora of Australia 8: 88 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: SA (naturalised), NSW (naturalised), ACT (naturalised), Vic (naturalised), Tas (naturalised)

Arrington, J.M. & Kubitzki, K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Cistaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 5: 68 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 190 [secondary reference]

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