Tisonia

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}

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Tisonia is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Salicaceae.{{cite web |title=Tisonia Baill. {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:39535-1 |website=Plants of the World Online |access-date=15 March 2021 |language=en}} It is also in the subfamily Salicoideae and tribe Saliceae.{{cite journal |last1=Chase |first1=Mark W. |last2=Zmarzty |first2=Sue |last3=Lledó |first3=M. Dolores |last4=Wurdack |first4=Kenneth J. |last5=Swensen |first5=Susan M. |last6=Fay |first6=Michael F. |title=When in Doubt, Put It in Flacourtiaceae: A Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis Based on Plastid rbcL DNA Sequences |journal=Kew Bulletin |date=2002 |volume=57 |issue=1 |pages=141–181|doi=10.2307/4110825 |jstor=4110825 |bibcode=2002KewBu..57..141C }}

It is native to Madagascar.

The genus name of Tisonia is in honour of Eugène Édouard Augustin Tison (1842–1932), French doctor and professor of botany.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition |trans-title=Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2018 | isbn=978-3-946292-26-5 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2018 |format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2018 | s2cid=187926901 |access-date=1 January 2021}}

It was first described and published in Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris Vol.1 on page 568 in 1886.