Vasilis Teodoridis:
Tiliaceae | Tilia
4. Tilia chinensis Maximowicz; Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada. 11: 83. 1890.
?? hua duan
Trees to 30 m tall. Branchlets usually brown when dry; glabrous; rarely sparsely pilose or densely tomentose; winter buds big; bud scale glabrous. Petiole 3-8 cm; usually sparsely pilose; leaf blade broadly elliptic or orbicular to ovate-orbicular; (5-)7-13 x (4.5-)6-9 cm; papery; abaxially densely stellate tomentose; adaxially glabrous; basal veins 5-7; lateral veins 7-9 pairs; base usually oblique; cordate; truncate; or rounded; margin serrate; apex acuminate or shortly acuminate. Cymes 1-3-flowered; usually not exceeding bract; shorter than leaves; peduncle hairy. Bracts long band-shaped; 4-9(-12) x 1-2 cm; adnate to peduncle for 2/5-1/2 of length; abaxially hairy; adaxially glabrous; sessile or with stalk to 0.5 cm. Sepals narrowly ovate; 6-7 mm; abaxially stellate hairy; adaxially stellate tomentose or glabrous at central part; margin densely hairy. Petals 8-9 mm; glabrous. Stamens 30-45; in 5 fascicles; staminodes 5; smaller than petals. Ovary 5-angled; gray-yellow tomentose; style glabrous; stigma peltate or capitate. Fruit ellipsoid or globose; prominently 5-angled; 10-14 x 8-9 mm; gray-yellow tomentose; exocarp woody; hard; indehiscent. Fl. Jun-Jul; fr. Aug-Oct. 2n = 164*.
? Forests; 1800-3100(-3900) m. Gansu; Henan; Hubei; Shaanxi; Sichuan; Xizang; Yunnan
Vasilis Teodoridis:
Tiliaceae | Tilia
4. Tilia chinensis Maximowicz; Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada. 11: 83. 1890.
?? hua duan
Trees to 30 m tall. Branchlets usually brown when dry; glabrous; rarely sparsely pilose or densely tomentose; winter buds big; bud scale glabrous. Petiole 3-8 cm; usually sparsely pilose; leaf blade broadly elliptic or orbicular to ovate-orbicular; (5-)7-13 x (4.5-)6-9 cm; papery; abaxially densely stellate tomentose; adaxially glabrous; basal veins 5-7; lateral veins 7-9 pairs; base usually oblique; cordate; truncate; or rounded; margin serrate; apex acuminate or shortly acuminate. Cymes 1-3-flowered; usually not exceeding bract; shorter than leaves; peduncle hairy. Bracts long band-shaped; 4-9(-12) x 1-2 cm; adnate to peduncle for 2/5-1/2 of length; abaxially hairy; adaxially glabrous; sessile or with stalk to 0.5 cm. Sepals narrowly ovate; 6-7 mm; abaxially stellate hairy; adaxially stellate tomentose or glabrous at central part; margin densely hairy. Petals 8-9 mm; glabrous. Stamens 30-45; in 5 fascicles; staminodes 5; smaller than petals. Ovary 5-angled; gray-yellow tomentose; style glabrous; stigma peltate or capitate. Fruit ellipsoid or globose; prominently 5-angled; 10-14 x 8-9 mm; gray-yellow tomentose; exocarp woody; hard; indehiscent. Fl. Jun-Jul; fr. Aug-Oct. 2n = 164*.
? Forests; 1800-3100(-3900) m. Gansu; Henan; Hubei; Shaanxi; Sichuan; Xizang; Yunnan