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Cistus osbeckiifolius Christ

Cistaceae · Canary Is.

Cited as Kew's World Checklist cites it, Cistus osbeckiifolius Christ: GBIF's backbone key for this page carries the name with another author, Webb ex Pit. & Proust.

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Habitat figures
Coldest month, mean nightly low
8.1°C
Jan at the habitat, not a floor; extremes not used (sea cell) CHELSA
Warmest month, mean daily high
23°C
Jul and Aug at the habitat CHELSA
Rain a year (median across the range)
458mm
7 months of 25 mm or more in the median year CHELSA
Open-sky light
25–50DLI
Lowest to highest month (DLI) CHELSA
The year in your months, northern hemisphere
  1. Jan
  2. Feb
  3. Mar
  4. Apr
  5. May
  6. Jun
  7. Jul
  8. Aug
  9. Sep
  10. Oct
  11. Nov
  12. Dec
Wet winters: the rain comes November to March, read as a winter growing season. rain rule, CHELSA
Northern hemisphere unless you set your site. The chart is in the habitat's months.

Summary

Cistus osbeckiifolius is a shrubby species of flowering plant in the family Cistaceae, with pink to purple flowers.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cistus osbeckiifolius", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Cistus

Cistus is a genus of flowering plants in the rockrose family Cistaceae, containing about 34 species and a similar number of natural hybrids. They are perennial shrubs found on dry or rocky soils throughout the Mediterranean region, from Morocco, Spain, Italy, Greece, through to the Middle East, and also on the Canary Islands.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Cistus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Seasons

The rain rule reads a winter growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (356 mm of 458 mm) falls in November to March, cooler than the year (wet-season mean 10.8 °C against a yearly mean of 14.0 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: May to September.

Rain

458 mm in the median year at the habitat, 356 mm of it November to March. Wettest month December at 92 mm, driest month July at 1 mm; 2 months under 5 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 377 mm to 578 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 458 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 458 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.

Light

Open sky over the habitat: 25 to 50 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 21, the highest 90th-percentile month 51).

Warmth and air
Temperature

Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low 8.1 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range 3.0 °C to 14.2 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 23.4 °C in July (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: none read. The nearest figure is 8.1 °C, the coldest month's mean nightly low, January, in the median year (CHELSA); a month's mean of its nightly lows is warmer than the nights a floor is read from. The daily extremes were read at a weather cell that is mostly sea and are not used.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 41 to 55% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

How this section is made

Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.

Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Temperature. CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. No cold floor is read without a daily extremes series; the coldest month's mean nightly low named in its sentence is not one. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat months, northern hemisphere

Habitat climate of Cistus osbeckiifolius through the yearWarmest months July and August, mean daily high 23 °C; coldest month January, mean nightly low 8.1 °C; 458 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added). Medians across the range, from CHELSA. Habitat months, northern hemisphere.0°5°10°15°20°25°30°°C · day and nightcold quarter0255075100125150mm rainDLI 25–50RH 41–55%JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain medians and 10th–90th percentile across 10 habitat cells, CHELSA cold quarter: the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C12 / 8–1612 / 8–1614 / 10–1714 / 11–1716 / 13–1819 / 18–2123 / 22–2423 / 22–2421 / 18–2218 / 14–2115 / 11–1913 / 8–17
Night °C8 / 3–148 / 3–149 / 4–159 / 5–1511 / 7–1614 / 11–1817 / 16–1918 / 15–2016 / 12–2113 / 9–1911 / 6–179 / 4–15
Rain mm62 / 51–7570 / 58–8958 / 46–7425 / 21–3210 / 7–113 / 2–51 / 1–35 / 4–612 / 9–1346 / 38–5874 / 61–9492 / 74–128
DLI27 / 23–2833 / 29–3440 / 36–4145 / 42–4648 / 46–4950 / 48–5149 / 47–5047 / 44–4741 / 38–4235 / 31–3628 / 24–2925 / 21–26
RH %52 / 42–6152 / 42–6150 / 40–6152 / 39–6151 / 37–6247 / 34–6341 / 31–6344 / 34–6350 / 40–6354 / 44–6355 / 44–6155 / 43–63

The daily extremes were read at a NASA POWER cell that is 24% land: neither it nor the next candidates whose coldest month's mean nightly low is within 2 °C of the median across cells sit in a POWER cell that is mostly land, and the rule reads a cold floor only from a cell that is mostly land, so none is read for this species. Nor is the coldest month's mean nightly low taken as one: it is a mean of a month's lows, not its coldest night. What that cell gave over 44 years: absolute minimum 8.1 °C, 1st-percentile night 9.9 °C, 99th-percentile day 21.2 °C.

How this section is made
Each figure is the median across the 10 grid cells holding the 20 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. A dash is a month one or more of those cells has no figure for in the grid (a variable CHELSA does not carry there), so no median is taken rather than one over fewer cells. Extremes and elevation were read at a typical spot in the range, cell 1237:3266 (28.125, -16.675). Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Across the range: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 10 distinct grid cells holding 20 of the 20 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1237:3266 (its coldest month's mean nightly low nearest the median across cells, though its NASA POWER cell is only 24% land and none of the 0 next candidates within 2 °C of the median was mostly land); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 28.00_-16.875, lapse-corrected +881 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 992 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across the cells of the in-range records placed well enough to read one, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeCanary Is. · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker28.305, -16.567 · in the densest population, 24 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 24 georeferenced records inside the native range; the climate across the range on the 20 of them placed to within 10 km; the map shows only the 5 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 89 km away. 1 record outside the WCVP native range not used. 4 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 11001256 (Cistus osbeckiifolius Christ): Kew's file holds it as Cistus osbeckiifolius Christ (accepted); 1 record, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 24 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Diego Alex, CC BY-SA, via GBIF (2); Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4).

Similar habitat climate The 6 nearest by mean daily high, mean nightly low and rain, month by month. How.

Micromeria lachnophylla Micromeria lachnophylla Lamiaceae Photo: CC BY, Alessia GuggisbergRhamnus integrifolia Rhamnus integrifolia Rhamnaceae Photo: CC BY, Elizabete MarchanteCarlina xeranthemoides Carlina xeranthemoides Malpica de cumbre Photo: CC BY, Elizabete MarchanteCheirolophus teydis Cheirolophus teydis Asteraceae Photo: CC BY, Elizabete MarchanteCytisus supranubius Cytisus supranubius Teide Broom Photo: CC BY, Elizabete MarchanteDescurainia bourgaeana Descurainia bourgaeana Brassicaceae Photo: CC BY, Vítor Jorge

Other Cistus 29 in the reference

Cistus × aguilari Cistaceae Cistus albidus Cistus albidus Grey-leaved Cistus Photo: CC BY, zebedeugalinha Cistus atriplicifolius Cistaceae Cistus calycinus Cistus calycinus Cistaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizCistus chinamadensis Cistus chinamadensis Cistaceae Photo: CC BY, Daniel Heras GonzálezCistus clusii Cistus clusii Cistaceae Photo: CC BY, Marc RieraCistus creticus Cistus creticus Pink rockrose Photo: CC BY, tylototritonCistus crispus Cistus crispus Curly rockrose Photo: CC BY-SA, Andy MabbettCistus × florentinus Cistus × florentinus Cistaceae Photo: CC BY, Diego González Dopico Cistus halimifolius Cistaceae Cistus heterophyllus Cistus heterophyllus Cistaceae Photo: CC BY, Abdenour KheloufiCistus × hybridus Cistus × hybridus Cistaceae Photo: CC BY, Duarte Frade all 30 ›

Names & registers

GBIFPOWOIPNIWFOWikidataWikipedia

The record

Family
Cistaceae
Described by
Christ
Native to
Canary Is.
Wild records
24 in range · 5 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21GBIF's key 7573489 is Cistus osbeckiifolius Webb ex Pit. & Proust; Kew accepts Cistus osbeckiifolius Christ, and the name is cited as Kew accepts it; its synonyms and common names are read from GBIF's Cistus osbeckiifolius Christ (11001256) too
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-210 read from GBIF's Cistus osbeckiifolius Christ (11001256)
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record of GBIF's key 11001256, Cistus osbeckiifolius Christ (Kew's file holds it as Cistus osbeckiifolius Christ (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API
Habitat climate climate answeredasked 2026-10-21
Daily extremes (NASA POWER) climate.extremes answeredasked 2026-10-21NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 28.00_-16.875, lapse-corrected +881 m at 6.5 °C/km; read, and set aside: NASA POWER's cell is mostly sea (24% land), so no cold floor is shown
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21found by its label; its IPNI identifier 77076617-1 is Kew's for Cistus osbeckiifolius Christ
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-21read from the page's key and its other keys: 2 from GBIF's key 11001256
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 9 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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