''Tilioideae'' is a

flowering plant Flowering plants are plants that bear flowers and fruits, and form the clade Angiospermae (), commonly called angiosperms. The term "angiosperm" is derived from the Greek words ('container, vessel') and ('seed'), and refers to those plants th ...

subfamily in the family

Malvaceae Malvaceae, or the mallows, is a family of flowering plants estimated to contain 244 genera with 4225 known species. Well-known members of economic importance include okra, cotton, cacao and durian. There are also some genera containing familiar ...

, though it was formerly considered a large group, placed at

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rank and called Tiliaceae. Within the framework of the

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s III & IV systems, an extended family

is recognized by uniting the core

Malvales The Malvales are an order of flowering plants. As circumscribed by APG II-system, the order includes about 6000 species within 9 families. The order is placed in the eurosids II, which are part of the eudicots. The plants are mostly shrubs and ...

of the

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- Bombacaceae,

''sensu stricto'',

Sterculiaceae Sterculiaceae was a family of flowering plant based on the genus ''Sterculia''. Genera formerly included in Sterculiaceae are now placed in the family Malvaceae, in the subfamilies: Byttnerioideae, Dombeyoideae, Helicteroideae and Sterculioideae. A ...

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''. The majority of other genera historically included in the family rank "Tiliaceae" have been moved into two other subfamilies of Malvaceae, the

Brownlowioideae Brownlowioideae is a subfamily of the botanical family Malvaceae. The genera in this subfamily used to be a part of the paraphyletic Tiliaceae until taxonomic revisions in part by the APG II system The APG II system (Angiosperm Phylogeny Gr ...

and

Grewioideae Grewioideae is a subfamily of the family Malvaceae and was first described by Hochreutiner. The group is named after its type genus, '' Grewia'', which is named for the English scientist Nehemiah Grew (1641-1712). It contains a number of gener ...

Craigia

* †'' Craigia bronnii'' * †'' Craigia hainanensis'' * '' Craigia kwangsiensis'' * †'' Craigia oregonensis'' * '' Craigia yunnanensis''

'' Mortoniodendron''

'' Tilia''

* '' Tilia americana'' L. * ''

Tilia amurensis ''Tilia amurensis'', the Amur lime or Amur linden, is a species of '' Tilia'' native to eastern Asia. It differs from the better-known ''Tilia cordata ''Tilia cordata'', the small-leaved lime or small-leaved linden, is a species of tree in the ...

'' * '' Tilia caroliniana'' * '' Tilia chinensis'' * '' Tilia chingiana'' Hu & W.C.Cheng * ''

Tilia cordata ''Tilia cordata'', the small-leaved lime or small-leaved linden, is a species of tree in the family Malvaceae, native to much of Europe. Other common names include little-leaf or littleleaf linden, or traditionally in South East England, pry or p ...

Mill. Philip Miller FRS (1691 – 18 December 1771) was an English botanist and gardener of Scottish descent. Miller was chief gardener at the Chelsea Physic Garden for nearly 50 years from 1722, and wrote the highly popular ''The Gardeners Dictio ...

* '' Tilia dasystyla'' Steven * '' Tilia henryana'' Szyszyl. * '' Tilia hupehensis'' * '' Tilia insularis'' * '' Tilia intonsa'' * ''

Tilia japonica ''Tilia japonica'', the Japanese lime or Japanese linden, is a species of ''Tilia'' native to eastern China and Japan, preferring to grow in mountains up to 2000m. It superficially resembles the better-known '' Tilia cordata'', the small-leaved l ...

'' * †'' Tilia johnsoni'' Wolfe & Wehr

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* '' Tilia kiusiana'' * '' Tilia mandshurica'' * '' Tilia maximowicziana'' * '' Tilia miqueliana'' * '' Tilia mongolica'' Maxim. * '' Tilia nasczokinii'' * '' Tilia nobilis'' * '' Tilia oliveri'' * '' Tilia paucicostata'' * ''

Tilia platyphyllos ''Tilia platyphyllos'', the large-leaved lime or large-leaved linden, is a species of flowering plant in the family (biology), family Malvaceae (Tiliaceae). It is a deciduous tree, native plant, native to much of Europe, including locally in sout ...

Scop. Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (sometimes Latinized as Johannes Antonius Scopolius) (3 June 1723 – 8 May 1788) was an Italian physician and naturalist. His biographer Otto Guglia named him the "first anational European" and the " Linnaeus of the A ...

* '' Tilia rubra'' * ''

Tilia tomentosa ''Tilia tomentosa'', known as silver linden in the US and silver lime in the UK, is a species of flowering plant in the family Malvaceae, native to southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia, from Romania and the Balkans east to western Turkey, oc ...

'' Moench * '' Tilia tuan'' Szyszyl.

References

Rosid subfamilies {{Malvaceae-stub