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Tilia cordata Mill., 1768

🇬🇧 Small-leaved Lime

🇫🇷 Tilleul à feuilles en cœur, Tilleul à petites feuilles, Tilleul cordé, Tilleul des bois

Taxonomy

  • Kingdom: Plantae
  • Clade: Tracheophytes
  • Clade: Angiosperms
  • Clade: Eudicots
  • Clade: Superrosids
  • Clade: Rosids
  • Clade: Malvids
  • Order: Malvales
  • Family: Malvaceae
  • Subfamily: Tilioideae
  • Genus: Tilia
  • Species: Tilia cordata

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

  • Red List (Metropolitan France): LC Least Concern
  • Red List (Europe): LC Least Concern

Notes

Possible confusion with T. platyphyllos Scop., 1771, whose leaves have white hairs at the fork of the veins on their abaxial side, while those of T. cordata have reddish hairs.

The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:

  • T. cordata subsp. cordata Mill., 1768, P;
  • T. cordata subsp. nasczokinii (Stepanov) Shekhovts. & Kosterin, 2022;
  • T. cordata subsp. sibirica (Bayer) Pigott, 2002.

Hybridizes with:

  • T. dasystyla Steven, 1832 to produce T. × euchlora K.Koch, 1866, M;
  • T. platyphyllos Scop., 1771 to produce T. × europaea L., 1753, M;
  • T. tomentosa Moench, 1785 to produce T. × juranyiana Simonk., 1886, M.

Photographs

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Tilia cordata
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Tilia cordata - Leaf
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Tilia cordata - Leaf, abaxial side

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