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Tilia platyphyllos Scop., 1771

🇬🇧 Large-leaved Lime

🇫🇷 Tilleul à feuilles larges, Tilleul à grandes feuilles, Tilleul à larges feuilles

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 platyphyllos

Presence

Present.

Conservation status

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

Notes

Possible confusion with T. cordata Mill., 1768, whose leaves have reddish hairs at the fork of the veins on their abaxial side, while those of T. platyphyllos have white hairs.

The following infraspecific taxa are accepted:

  • T. platyphyllos nothosubsp. braunii (Simonk.) C.K.Schneid., 1909: subsp. cordifolia × subsp. platyphyllos;
  • T. platyphyllos subsp. cordifolia (Besser) C.K.Schneid., 1909, P;
  • T. platyphyllos subsp. corinthiaca (Bosc ex K.Koch) Pigott, 2002;
  • T. platyphyllos subsp. platyphyllos Scop., 1771, M;
  • T. platyphyllos subsp. pseudorubra C.K.Schneid., 1909, P.

Hybridizes with T. cordata Mill., 1768 to produce T. × europaea L., 1753, M.

Photographs

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Tilia platyphyllos
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Tilia platyphyllos
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Tilia platyphyllos
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Tilia platyphyllos - Leaf
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Tilia platyphyllos - Leaf, abaxial side
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Tilia platyphyllos - Bark

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