Tisonia

Tisonia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malpighiales
Family: Salicaceae
Subfamily: Salicoideae
Tribe: Saliceae
Genus: Tisonia
Baill.

Tisonia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Salicaceae.[1] It is also in the subfamily Salicoideae and tribe Saliceae.[2]

It is native to Madagascar.[1]

The genus name of Tisonia is in honour of Eugène Édouard Augustin Tison (1842–1932), French doctor and professor of botany.[3] It was first described and published in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris Vol.1 on page 568 in 1886.[1]

  1. ^ a b c "Tisonia Baill. | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 15 March 2021.
  2. ^ Chase, Mark W.; Zmarzty, Sue; Lledó, M. Dolores; Wurdack, Kenneth J.; Swensen, Susan M.; Fay, Michael F. (2002). "When in Doubt, Put It in Flacourtiaceae: A Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis Based on Plastid rbcL DNA Sequences". Kew Bulletin. 57 (1): 141–181. Bibcode:2002KewBu..57..141C. doi:10.2307/4110825. JSTOR 4110825.
  3. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.