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Tilia
Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees or bushes, native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The species are known as linden or lime for the European and Asian species, and linden or basswood for North American species and more generally in American literature. The greatest species diversity is found in Asia, but the genus also occurs widely in Europe and eastern North America. Under the Cronquist classification system, this genus was placed in the family Tiliaceae, but genetic research summarised by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group has resulted in the incorporation of this genus, and of most of the previous family, into the Malvaceae.
Tilia is the only known ectomycorrhizal genus in the family Malvaceae. Studies of ectomycorrhizal relations of Tilia species indicate a wide range of fungal symbionts and a preference toward Ascomycota fungal partners.
32 branches of this genus, most-observed first
basswood
speciesTilia americana
Little-leaf Linden
speciesTilia cordata
Bigleaf Linden
speciesTilia platyphyllos
Silver Lime
speciesTilia tomentosa
Common Lime
hybridTilia × europaea
Crimean Lime
speciesTilia dasystyla
Amur Lime
speciesTilia amurensis
Manchurian Lime
speciesTilia mandshurica
Caucasian Lime
hybridTilia × euchlora
Mongolian lime
speciesTilia mongolica
Temple lime
speciesTilia miqueliana
Henry's Lime
speciesTilia henryana
Tilia mexicana
speciesTilia mexicana
Japanese lime
speciesTilia japonica
Tilia × moltkei
hybridTilia × moltkei
Chinese Linden
speciesTilia chinensis
Tilia maximowicziana
speciesTilia maximowicziana
Nasczokin's lime
speciesTilia nasczokinii
Tilia tuan
speciesTilia tuan
Kyushu lime
speciesTilia kiusiana
Tilia endochrysea
speciesTilia endochrysea
Chinese white lime
speciesTilia oliveri
Tilia paucicostata
speciesTilia paucicostata
Tilia taquetii
speciesTilia taquetii
Tilia insularis
speciesTilia insularis
Tilia integerrima
speciesTilia integerrima
Tilia rubra
speciesTilia rubra
Tilia × cinerascens
hybridTilia × cinerascens
Tilia callidonta
speciesTilia callidonta
Tilia × flaccida
hybridTilia × flaccida
Tilia sabetii
speciesTilia sabetii
Tilia nobilis
speciesTilia nobilis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Garden of Health (Hortus Sanitatis)
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.654
Selecta Fungorum Carpologia, Vol 1
Louis-René & Charles Tulasne · 1861 · p.360
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.451
Maria Sibylla Merian — Der rupsen begin, voedzel en wonderbaare verandering (1712)
Maria Sibylla Merian · 1717 · p.227
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.896
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.894
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.222
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.350
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.351
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.374
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.373
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.847
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 54856.