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Tilioideae

Tilioideae is a flowering plant subfamily in the family Malvaceae, though it was formerly considered a large group, placed at family rank and called Tiliaceae.

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Tilioideae
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Tilia platyphyllos specimen in Franconia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Malvales
Family: Malvaceae
Subfamily: Tilioideae
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Tiliaceae (partim)

Tilioideae is a flowering plant subfamily in the family Malvaceae, though it was formerly considered a large group, placed at family rank and called Tiliaceae.

Within the framework of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Groups III1 & IV systems,2 an extended family Malvaceae is recognized by uniting the core Malvales of the Cronquist system - Bombacaceae, Malvaceae sensu stricto, Sterculiaceae and Tiliaceae. Within the APG classification, Malvaceae contains a clade of 3 living genera placed as the subfamily Tilioideae.

Genera and species

The subfamily includes Tilia, Craigia, and Mortoniodendron.3 The majority of other genera historically included in the family rank "Tiliaceae" have been moved into two other subfamilies of Malvaceae, the Brownlowioideae and Grewioideae.

  • Mortoniodendron abelianum Al.Rodr.
  • Mortoniodendron anisophyllum (Standl.) Standl. & Steyerm.
  • Mortoniodendron apetalum Al. Rodr.
  • Mortoniodendron cauliflorum Al. Rodr.
  • Mortoniodendron guatemalense Standl. & Steyerm.
  • Mortoniodendron hirsutum Standl.
  • Mortoniodendron longipedunculatum Al. Rodr.
  • Mortoniodendron membranaceum Standl. & Steyerm.
  • Mortoniodendron moralesii Al.Rodr.
  • Mortoniodendron palaciosii Miranda
  • Mortoniodendron pentagonum (Donn. Sm.) Miranda
  • Mortoniodendron ruizii Miranda
  • Mortoniodendron sulcatum Lundell
  • Mortoniodendron uxpanapense Dorr & T. Wendt
  • Mortoniodendron vestitum Lundell
References

References

  1. Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009), "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 161 (2): 105–121, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8339.2009.00996.x, hdl:10654/18083
  2. Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2016), "An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG IV", Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society, 181 (1): 1–20, doi:10.1111/boj.12385
  3. Stevens, P.F. (2015) [1st. Pub. 2001], Angiosperm Phylogeny Website, retrieved 28 January 2021