Common Names - Linden or Lime Family | Synonyms - |
Authority - Juss. | Total Number of genera - 50 |
Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 680 |
Plant forms - Trees, shrubs, rarely herbs |
World Distribution - Subcosmopolitan |
Comments - Tiliaceae is a botanical name for a family of flowering plants. Such a family is not part of APG II, but it is found all through the botanical literature and remains prominently listed by nomenclatural databases such as IPNI.
Timbers in Apeiba, Berrya, Entelea, Luehea, Pentace, Schoutenia, Tilia.
50 genera with 425 species are trees. |