Spermatophyta: Dicotyledonae: Archichlamydeae

Tiliaceae - Linden family

Literature

Coates Palgrave K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002) Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa

Wild, H. (1963) Tiliaceae FZ 2(1)

Description of the family

Small trees, lianes, shrubs or herbs, often stellately hairy. Stipules small, deciduous. Leaves alternate, often asymmetric and 3-veined from the base. Flowers usually bisexual, actinomorphic. Sepals 5, or sometimes 2-4, free or occasionally connate. Petals free, equalling number of sepals, rarely 0. Stamens usually numerous. Ovary superior, 2-10-locular. Fruit a dry or ± fleshy drupe or schizocarp.

Worldwide: 46 genera and 680 species, ± cosmopolitan

Triumfetta welwitschii

More sample images from the Tiliaceae (Click on each image to see a larger version and details of the record)

Corchorus aestuans

Corchorus aestuans

Corchorus tridens

Corchorus tridens

Grewia flava

Grewia flava

Grewia sulcata

Grewia sulcata

Triumfetta welwitschii

Triumfetta welwitschii

Links to genera: (4)    View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this family

GenusContent
Corchorus L.Description, Image
Grewia L.Description, Image
Sparrmannia L.f.Description, Image
Triumfetta L.Description, Image

Other sources of information about Tiliaceae:

Flora of Zimbabwe: cultivated Tiliaceae page
Flora of Mozambique: Tiliaceae
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Tiliaceae
Google: Web - Images - Scholar


Copyright: Mark Hyde and Bart Wursten, 2002-10

Hyde, M.A. & Wursten, B. (2010). Flora of Zimbabwe: Family page: Tiliaceae.
http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/family.php?family_id=221, retrieved 9 February 2010

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