diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-diversitree/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-diversitree/package.py
index 56d2990573..ddad9ee891 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-diversitree/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/r-diversitree/package.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 
 class RDiversitree(RPackage):
-    """Contains a number of comparative 'phylogenetic' methods.
+    """Comparative 'Phylogenetic' Analyses of Diversification
 
        Mostly focusing on analysing diversification and character
        evolution. Contains implementations of 'BiSSE' (Binary State
@@ -22,10 +22,11 @@ class RDiversitree(RPackage):
     url      = "https://cloud.r-project.org/src/contrib/diversitree_0.9-10.tar.gz"
     list_url = "https://cron.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/diversitree"
 
+    version('0.9-15', sha256='c739ef3d4fcc24fd6855b1d297d31e0f89fbaff1efe8a2d149044458ecd363ea')
     version('0.9-11', sha256='4caa6a468f93de9f1c8c30e4457f34bb8346e1acdaf74f684005bfa86a950ecb')
     version('0.9-10', sha256='e7df5910c8508a5c2c2d6d3deea53dd3f947bb762196901094c32a7033cb043e')
 
-    depends_on('r@2.1.0:', type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('r@2.10:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-ape', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-desolve@1.7:', type=('build', 'run'))
     depends_on('r-subplex', type=('build', 'run'))