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Tiliaceae - Linden family
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. Comment: According to the most recent taxonomic research by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (APG-III), this family is now included in Malvaceae. As this new concept still appears to be highly controversial we will remain to treat it as a separate family until further information is available. Worldwide: 46 genera and 680 species, ± cosmopolitan |
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More sample images from the Tiliaceae (Click on each image to see a larger version and details of the record)
Links to genera: View: living plant images - herbarium specimen images - all images for this family
| Genus | Content |
| Carpodiptera Griseb. | Description |
| Clappertonia Meisn. | Description, Image |
| Corchorus L. | Description, Image |
| Glyphaea Hook. f. ex Planch. | Description, Image |
| Grewia L. | Description, Image |
| Sparrmannia L.f. | Description, Image |
| Triumfetta L. | Description |
Other sources of information about Tiliaceae:
Flora of Zimbabwe: TiliaceaeGRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Tiliaceae
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