Tilia

genus of plants
Taxon taxon Q127849
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Summary

Tilia is a taxon[1]. Tilia ranks in the top 0.26% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (11,359 views/month, #506 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Tree of the Year (Austria)[3]
  • Taxon rank: genus[4]
  • Parent taxon: Tilioideae[5], Malvaceae[6]
  • Taxon name: Tilia[7]
  • Subclass of: broad-leaved tree[8], tree[9]
  • Commons category: Tilia[10]
  • Taxonomic type: Tilia × europaea[11]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Tilia[12]
  • Commons gallery: Tilia[13]
  • OpenStreetMap tag: genus=Tilia[14]
  • Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[15], Zhiwu Mingshi Tukao[16], Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[17], Flora Reipublicae Popularis Sinicae, volume 49(1)[18], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[20], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[21], The Encyclopedia Americana[22], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[23]
  • GRIN URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomygenus.aspx?id=12151[24]
  • This taxon is source of: limewood[25], Q136652037[26]
  • Taxon common name: Lime[27], Basswood[28], Linde[29], Lipa[30], 椴树属[31], 椴属[32]
  • Different from: Lipa[33]

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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]; Lindau[44], an inland island[45], in Germany[46]; Lindon[47], a city in the United States[48], in United States[49], founded in 1850[50]; Linde[51], a family name[52]; Promethes tilloyi[53], a fossil taxon[54]; Lipová[55], a municipal part of the Czech Republic[56], in Czech Republic[57]; and Lipová Lhota[58], a cadastral area in the Czech Republic[59], in Czech Republic[60].

Why It Matters

Tilia has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[61] Tilia is known by 86 alternative names across languages and contexts.[62]

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

FAQs

What awards did Tilia receive?

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

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

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  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
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  6. [48] ↑ . 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. [56] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  12. [57] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  13. [59] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  14. [60] ↑ . 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. [61] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [62] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 8w ago · Lucidieaux · 2026-08-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14692 → Q22928
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  2. 8w ago · Yapy28 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wordnet 3.1 synset id → 12223229-n
    Interlingual index id → i101250
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/47825|batch #47825]]: OENN batch"
  3. 18w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0355557-lipa
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0355557-lipa, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259492|batch #259492]]"
  4. 21w 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 */ Yso id: 4579, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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