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Tisonia

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

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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
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

Known species

According to Kew,1

  • Tisonia baronii Danguy
  • Tisonia capuronii Sleumer
  • Tisonia cloiselii Danguy
  • Tisonia coriacea Scott Elliot
  • Tisonia coursii H.Perrier
  • Tisonia crenata Sleumer
  • Tisonia danguyana H.Perrier
  • Tisonia ficulnea Baill.
  • Tisonia glabrata Baill.
  • Tisonia humbertii H.Perrier
  • Tisonia keraudrenae Leandri
  • Tisonia leandriana H.Perrier
  • Tisonia palmatinervis Sleumer
  • Tisonia rubescens Danguy
References

References

  1. "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.