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.
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Sources
Khela, S. (2013). Tilia platyphyllos (errata version published in 2017). The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, 2013. https://doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-2.RLTS.T203361A2764367.en
Tison, J.M., & de Foucault, B. (2014). Flora Gallica : Flore de France (p. 832). Biotope.