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Tilia chingiana Hu & W.C.Cheng

Ching's Lime

Malvaceae · China Southeast

No habitat climate
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Summary

Tilia chingiana Hu & W.C.Cheng is a medium-sized tree native to the provinces of Anhui, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang in China.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Tilia chingiana", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Tilia

Tilia is a genus of about 30 species of trees or bushes, native throughout most of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. The species are known as linden or lime for the European and Asian species, and linden or basswood for North American species and more generally in American literature. The greatest species diversity is found in Asia, but the genus also occurs widely in Europe and eastern North America. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Tilia", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 18 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 18 of the 18 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina Southeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker29.61, 115.99 · in the densest population, 13 records (72% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 18 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 12 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 42 km away. 3 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 18 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 18 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Ptelea, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Izigabo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3); APictche, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Tilia 20 in the reference

Tilia americana Tilia americana American basswood Photo: CC BY, Steven LavoieTilia amurensis Tilia amurensis Amur linden Photo: CC BY, Поляков АлександрTilia chinensis Tilia chinensis Chinese Linden Photo: CC BY-SA, MarekPogorzelecTilia cordata Tilia cordata Small-leaved lime Photo: CC BY, Oleksandr ShynderTilia dasystyla Tilia dasystyla Crimean Lime Photo: CC BY, Наталья Пикалова Tilia endochrysea Malvaceae Tilia × euchlora Tilia × euchlora Caucasian lime Photo: CC BY-SA, Michael PavlíčekTilia × europaea Tilia × europaea European linden Photo: CC BY, jamie-aa Tilia henryana Henry's Lime Tilia japonica Tilia japonica Japanese linden Photo: CC BY-SA, harum.kohTilia kiusiana Tilia kiusiana Kyushu lime Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizTilia mandshurica Tilia mandshurica Manchurian lime Photo: CC BY, Tatyana Petrenko all 21 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Tilia breviradiata; Tilia orocryptica; Tilia orocyptica; Tilia tuan var. breviradiata. (GBIF Backbone)

Under another author Tilia chinensis Hu & W.C.Cheng is an older name of this species, not Tilia chinensis, a species of the reference. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Malvaceae
Described by
Hu & W.C.Cheng
Native to
China Southeast
Wild records
18 in range · 12 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2218 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 7 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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