Miquel's linden tree
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Miquel's linden ( Tilia miqueliana ) is a small tree from the genus of linden ( Tilia ). The natural range of the species is in Japan and China. It is sometimes planted as a bee pasture .
description
Miquel's linden is a 10 to 20 meter high tree with gray-white bark . The twigs are hairy yellow-brown tomentose . The terminal buds are egg-shaped and also hairy yellow-brown tomentose. The leaves have a 3 to 4 centimeter long, stem-round, tomentose, star-haired stem. The leaf blade is rarely from 5, usually 9 to 12 centimeters long and from 4, usually 7 to 9.5 centimeters wide, ovate-rounded, pointed, with a heart-shaped, rarely oblique base and serrated leaf margin. Six to eight pairs of nerves are formed. The upper side of the leaf is dark green and bare, the underside of the leaf is gray to yellowish gray, tomentose, star-haired and without beards.
The inflorescences are 6 to 8 centimeters long cymes of three to twelve flowers . The flower stalk is hairy gray tomentose. The bracts are sessile or have a 2 to 3 millimeter long stem. They are 8 to 12 centimeters long and 1.5 to 2.5 centimeters wide, oblong-inverted-lanceolate, with a blunt end, narrow wedge-shaped base and fused with the inflorescence axis over a length of 4 to 6 centimeters. Both leaf sides are covered with star hair. The flower stalk is 8 to 12 millimeters long. The sepals are 5 to 6 millimeters long and hairy gray. The petals are slightly longer than the sepals. The stamens are slightly shorter than the petals, the five staminodes are slightly shorter than the stamens. The ovary is hairy. The stylus is the same length as the petals. The fruits are round, not angular, fluffy, star-haired and warty. The exocarp is woody and hard. Miquel's linden tree blooms in July.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 164.
Occurrence and location requirements
The natural range is in China in the provinces Anhui , Guangdong , Jiangsu , Jiangxi and Zhejiang ; in Japan it was naturalized. Miquel's linden tree grows in steppes and dry forests on fresh, slightly acidic to slightly alkaline, sandy-loamy to loamy, nutrient-rich soils in sunny to light-shaded locations. The species is usually frost hardy .
Systematics
Miquel's linden ( Tilia miqueliana ) is a species from the genus of linden ( Tilia ). It is in the family of mallow the subfamily (Malvaceae) tilioideae assigned (Tilioideae). The species was first validly described scientifically in 1880 by Karl Johann Maximowicz . The generic name Tilia comes from Latin and was already used by the Romans for the linden tree. The specific epithet miqueliana honors the German-Dutch botanist Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel .
use
Miquel's linden tree is rarely used as a bee pasture .
proof
literature
- Wu Zheng-yi, Peter H. Raven, Deyuan Hong (Eds.): Flora of China . Volume 12: Hippocastanaceae through Theaceae . Science Press / Missouri Botanical Garden Press, Beijing / St. Louis 2007, ISBN 978-1-930723-64-1 , pp. 246 (English).
- Andreas Roloff , Andreas Bärtels: Flora of the woods. Purpose, properties and use. With a winter key from Bernd Schulz. 3rd, corrected edition. Eugen Ulmer, Stuttgart (Hohenheim) 2008, ISBN 978-3-8001-5614-6 , pp. 653-654.
- Jost Fitschen: Woody flora . 12th, revised and expanded edition. Quelle & Meyer, Wiebelsheim 2007, ISBN 3-494-01422-1 , p. 844 .
- Helmut Genaust: Etymological dictionary of botanical plant names. 3rd, completely revised and expanded edition. Nikol, Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-937872-16-7 (reprint from 1996).
Individual evidence
- ↑ German name according to Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , p. 653 and after Fitschen: Gehölzflora , p. 844
- ↑ a b c Ya Tang, Michael G. Gilbert, Laurence J. Dorr: Tilia miqueliana , in the Flora of China , Volume 12, p. 246
- ↑ a b c d Roloff et al .: Flora der Gehölze , pp. 653–654
- ↑ a b c Tilia miqueliana. In: Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). United States Department of Agriculture, accessed May 26, 2012 .
- ↑ Exactly: Etymological Dictionary of Botanical Plant Names , p. 645
Web links
- Tilia miqueliana. In: The Plant List. Retrieved May 26, 2012 .