Extremely rare Cistus ladanifer var. supermaculatus var. nov. (Cistaceae)

Cistus ladanifer L. is a shrub which presents a typical flower consisting in five white petals provided or not with a basal deep purple blotch, covering less than 10% of the petal's surface. The new variety here proposed is characterized by the large dark dots that cover often an 80% of the petal's surface, hence the epithet adopted supermaculatus. Because the dot is superb in dimensions and is visible both on the adaxial, but also on the abaxial faces of the petal. Cistus ladanifer var. supermaculatus var. nov. is endemic to the Ciudad Real Province of Spain.(c) 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of SAAB. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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Cistus ladanifer var. supermaculatus var. nov. is a shrub endemic to the Ciudad Real Province in Spain, characterized by large dark dots covering a significant percentage of the petal's surface.