Tilia tuan

SPECIES

1. KingdomPlantae
2. PhylumTracheophyta
3. ClassMagnoliopsida
4. OrderMalvales
5. FamilyMalvaceae

Native toChina South-Central, China Southeast, Vietnam

Observations recorded883

Trees 10-20 m tall. Bark gray, longitudinally exfoliate; branchlets glabrous or tomentose; terminal bud glabrous or hairy. Petiole 1-6 cm, glabrous or tomentose; leaf blade narrowly ovate or ovate-oblong to ovate-orbicular, 6.5-17 × 3.5-11 cm, abaxially glabrous to densely shortly gray-white or brown tomentose, adaxially glabrous, lateral veins 3-11 pairs, base oblique, rounded, truncate, or cordate, margin entire or with a few minute teeth near apex or prominently dentate, apex acuminate or acute. Cymes 3-22-flowered, 5-14 cm, glabrous or hairy. Bracts band-shaped to oblanceolate, 6-16 × 1-3 cm, adnate to peduncle for ca. 1/2 of length, stellate pilose or tomentose to glabrous, base cuneate to rounded, apex obtuse to acuminate, sessile or stalk 0.5-0.8 cm. Pedicel 4-9 mm, glabrous or tomentose. Sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 4-6 mm, abaxially puberulent, adaxially villous at base, margin densely hairy. Petals 6-8 mm, glabrous, shortly clawed. Stamens 35-50, in 5 fascicles, glabrous; staminodes 5, oblanceolate, prominently keeled. Ovary ovoid, densely gray-white stellate tomentose; style 3-4 mm, glabrous. Fruit globose or obovoid-globose, not ridged, 7-11 × 7-9 mm, brown or gray