Tilia dasystyla Steven - Accepted: Tilia dasystyla Steven bei The Plant List (2014), version 1.1; Familie: Malvaceae (APG III)

Color of flower

yellowish

Flowers

hermaphrodite flowers; flowers with pubescent styles; inflorescence with 3-5 flowers fused to a bract by the glabrous peduncles

Flower ecology

insect-pollinated (entomophilous) (honeybees)

Life form

tree

Leaves

heart-shaped; lower surface with fasciculate hairs in the axils of the main veins; petiole 26-56 mm long

Foliage persistence

deciduous

Fruits

nut fruit

Fruit ecology

wind-dispersed (anemochorous)

Natural occurrence (habitat)

hardwood forests, oak-hornbeam forests; woodlands, rocks or scree, ravines, valleys of high mountains, valley slopes, south-facing steep slopes

Vegetation typ and synecology (plant community)

temperate mixed deciduous broad-leaved forests to warm-temperate (Mediterranean) mixed deciduous/evergreen forests (in communities of the Orobo-Fagenion orientalis)

Usage

occasionally used as a beekeeping plant; used for silvicultural purposes locally in the Caucasus

Bark

grey, with longitudinal, narrow furrows

Altidudinal lower limit (sea level in m)

500

Altitudinal higher limit (sea level in m)

1,500

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