Vasilis Teodoridis:
Tiliaceae | Tilia
1. Tilia endochrysea Handel-Mazzetti; Anz. Akad. Wiss. Wien; Math.-Naturwiss. Kl. 63: 9. 1926.
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Tilia begoniifolia Chun & H. D. Wong (1935); not Steven (1846); T. croizatii Chun & H. D. Wong; T. hypoglauca Rehder; T. lepidota Rehder; T. leptocarya Rehder; T. leptocarya var. triloba Rehder; T. scalenophylla Ling; T. vitifolia Hu & F. H. Chen (1951); not Host (1831).
Trees to 20 m tall. Bark gray with longitudinal dark gray fissures; branchlets bright green when young; glabrous or minutely hairy; buds 3-3.5 mm; glabrous. Stipules oblong; 7-10 mm; petiole 3-7 cm; nearly glabrous; leaf blade dark brown when dry; broadly to narrowly ovate or almost triangular; sometimes apically 3-5-lobed; 7-16 x 5-13 cm; abaxially gray-white stellate tomentose; sometimes glabrescent; adaxially glabrous; base obliquely cordate or truncate; margin sparsely denticulate; teeth 5-12 mm apart; apex acuminate or acute. Cymes 9-16 cm; 8-32-flowered; peduncle 3.5-9 cm; nearly glabrous. Bracts narrowly oblong; 6-13 x 1.5-3 cm; adnate to peduncle for 1-1.5 cm; abaxially gray-white stellate puberulent; adaxially glabrous or sparsely hairy; base cuneate to cordate; apex rounded; stalk 1-3 cm. Pedicel 2-15 mm; stellate pilose. Sepals narrowly ovate; 6-8 mm; gray-brown puberulent. Petals 0.9-1.2 cm. Stamens ca. 40; as long as sepals; staminodes slightly shorter than petals. Ovary hairy; style 4-5 mm; glabrous; stigma 5-lobed. Fruit globose; leathery; dehiscent into 5-valves. Fl. Jul-Aug. 2n = 82*.
? Species-rich mixed evergreen and deciduous woodlands; often on steep sides of narrow valleys and along rivers on well-drained brown soils; 600-1200 m. S Anhui; Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Hunan; Jiangxi; Zhejiang.
Pigott (Bot. Mag. 23: 56-61. 2006) gave a discussion of the taxonomy and ecology of Tilia endochrysea.