Tilia

genus of plants
Taxon taxon Q127849
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Tilia

Summary

Tilia is a taxon[1]. Tilia ranks in the top 0.26% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,771 views/month, #506 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Tilia received the Tree of the Year (Austria)[3].
  • Tilia received the Tree of the Year (Austria)[4].
  • Tilia's instance of is recorded as taxon[5].
  • Tilia is classified at the rank of genus[6].
  • Tilia belongs to the parent taxon Tilioideae[7].
  • Tilia is classified within Malvaceae[8].
  • Tilia's scientific name is Tilia[9].
  • Tilia is a type of broad-leaved tree[10].
  • Tilia is a type of tree[11].
  • Tilia's Commons category is recorded as Tilia[12].
  • The taxonomic type of Tilia is Tilia × europaea[13].
  • Tilia's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Tilia[14].
  • Tilia's Commons gallery is recorded as Tilia[15].
  • Tilia's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as genus=Tilia[16].
  • Tilia's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[17].
  • Tilia's described by source is recorded as Zhiwu Mingshi Tukao[18].
  • Tilia's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[19].
  • Tilia's described by source is recorded as Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 49(1)[20].
  • Tilia's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[21].
  • Tilia's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[22].
  • Tilia's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[23].
  • Tilia's described by source is recorded as Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[24].
  • Tilia's described by source is recorded as The Encyclopedia Americana[25].
  • Tilia's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[26].
  • Tilia's GRIN URL is recorded as https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=12151[27].

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Classification

Tilia's scientific name is Tilia[9]. Tilia is classified at the rank of genus[6]. Recorded parent taxon include Tilioideae[7] and Malvaceae[8]. The taxonomic type of Tilia is Tilia × europaea[13]. Recorded taxon common name include {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Lime'}[28], {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Basswood'}[29], {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'Linde'}[30], {'lang': 'pl', 'text': 'Lipa'}[31], {'lang': 'zh-hans', 'text': '椴树属'}[32], and {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '椴属'}[33].

Identifiers

Tilia's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 54856[34]. Tilia's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 64580[35]. Tilia's Encyclopedia of Life ID is recorded as 39692789[36]. Tilia's GBIF taxon ID is recorded as 3152041[37]. Tilia's ITIS TSN is recorded as 21535[38].

Discovery and Description

Things named for Tilia include July[39], a calendar month[40]; Unter den Linden[41], a boulevard[42], in Germany[43]; Lindon[44], a city in the United States[45], in United States[46], founded in 1850[47]; Lindau[48], an inland island[49], in Germany[50]; Linde[51], a family name[52]; Lipová[53], a municipal part of the Czech Republic[54], in Czech Republic[55]; Promethes tilloyi[56], a fossil taxon[57]; and Lipová Lhota[58].

Why It Matters

Tilia ranks in the top 0.26% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,771 views/month, #506 of 195,241).[2] Tilia has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[59] Tilia is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[60]

Entities named for Tilia include July[39], a calendar month[40]; Unter den Linden[41], a boulevard[42], in Germany[43]; Lindon[44], a city in the United States[45], in United States[46], founded in 1850[47]; Lindau[48], an inland island[49], in Germany[50]; Linde[51], a family name[52]; and Lipová[53], a municipal part of the Czech Republic[54], in Czech Republic[55].

FAQs

What awards did Tilia receive?

Honors received include Tree of the Year (Austria)[3] and Tree of the Year (Austria)[4].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  3. [3] . info.bmlrt.gv.at. Retrieved . info.bmlrt.gv.at. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [4] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Genera Plantarum. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [35] . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [38] . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [36] . Q82486. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [37] . Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] . wikidata.org.
  17. [15] . wikidata.org.
  18. [16] . wikidata.org.
  19. [17] . wikidata.org.
  20. [18] . wikidata.org.
  21. [19] . wikidata.org.
  22. [20] . wikidata.org.
  23. [21] . wikidata.org.
  24. [22] . wikidata.org.
  25. [23] . wikidata.org.
  26. [24] . wikidata.org.
  27. [25] . wikidata.org.
  28. [26] . wikidata.org.
  29. [27] . GRIN Taxonomy for Plants. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  30. [28] . Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  31. [29] . United States Department of Agriculture Plants Database. wikidata.org.
  32. [30] . Nederlands Soortenregister. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  33. [31] . wikidata.org.
  34. [32] . Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 49(1). wikidata.org.
  35. [33] . A new list of threatened woody species in China under future global change scenarios. wikidata.org.
  36. [34] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [39] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [41] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [44] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [48] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [51] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [53] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [56] . wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [58] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [40] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [42] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [43] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [45] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [46] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [47] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [49] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [50] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  9. [52] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  10. [54] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  11. [55] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [57] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [59] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [60] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 3d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon Tilioideae, Malvaceae
    Great russian encyclopedia online id (2017) 2146970
    Award received Tree of the Year (Austria), Tree of the Year (Austria)
    Different from Lipa
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|10 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 4579, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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