Ditrysinia
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Malpighiales |
| Family: | Euphorbiaceae |
| Subfamily: | Euphorbioideae |
| Tribe: | Hippomaneae |
| Subtribe: | Hippomaninae |
| Genus: | Raf. |
| Species: | D. fruticosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Ditrysinia fruticosa (W.Bartram) Govaerts & Frodin
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Ditrysinia is a plant genus of the family Euphorbiaceae first described as a genus in 1825.[2][3] It contains only one recognized species, Ditrysinia fruticosa, the Gulf Sebastian-bush,[4] native to the southeastern United States (E Texas, Louisiana, SW Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, N Florida, Georgia, North + South Carolina).[1][5][6]
- Formerly included
moved to Stillingia
- Ditrysinia sylvatica (L.) Raf. ex B.D.Jacks. - Stillingia sylvatica L.
Description
Ditrysinia fructicosa is a monoecious shrub. It may reach a height between 1.5 and 2.5 meters (approximately 5 to 8.2 feet).D. fructicosa's leaves are alternately arranged and range in shape from elliptic to lance-elliptic. They may reach a length of 3 to 7.5 centimeters (1.18 to 3 inches) and a width of 0.8 to 3.5 centimeters (0.3 to 1.4 inches).[7]
Habitat
This species is considered to be facultative to facultative wetland by the United States Department of Agriculture.[8]
In general, D. fructicosa may be found in habitats that are mostly shaded and are considered moist-to-wet, such as swampy forests.[9] However, due to its facultative nature, this species has been observed to occur in other types of habitats, such as: within a mesic woodland, within a floodplain forest, and on limestone bluffs.[10]
References
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Rafinesque, Constantine Samuel. 1825. Neogenyton 2.
- ^ Tropicos, Ditrysinia Raf.
- ^ NRCS. "Ditrysinia fruticosa". PLANTS Database. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Retrieved 8 November 2015.
- ^ Govaerts, R., Frodin, D.G. & Radcliffe-Smith, A. (2000). World Checklist and Bibliography of Euphorbiaceae (and Pandaceae) 1-4: 1-1622. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- ^ Biota of North America Program 2013 county distribution map
- ^ Radford, Albert E., Harry E. Ahles, and C. Ritchie Bell. Manual of the Vascular Flora of the Carolinas. 1964, 1968. The University of North Carolina Press. 667. Print.
- ^ "USDA Plants Database". plants.usda.gov. Retrieved 2025-08-08.
- ^ Weakley, A. S. (2015). Flora of the Southern and Mid-Atlantic States. Chapel Hill, NC, University of North Carolina Herbarium.
- ^ Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium database. URL: http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. Last accessed: May 2019. Collectors: Loran C. Anderson, A. Gholson, Jr., R. K. Godfrey, Neil Hotchkiss, R. Komarek, R. A. Norris, William J. Platt, Annie Schmidt, and Terry Williams. States and Counties: Florida: Gadsden, Jackson, Lafayette, Leon, and Liberty. Georgia: Grady and Thomas.
