This tree is known from two localities near Krasnoyarsk only, where it grows on a very restricted area as a sparce second layer trees in pine forests. The species was shown to differs from the Tilia cordata Miller - T. sibica Fischer ex Bayer compex, eexcept for morphological traits, also by chromosome number, in this respect Chinese close relatives.

A mixed pine/birch forest, with admixture of Tilia nasczokini, in the valley Log Kashtak on the Yenisei right bank just at Krasnoyarsk, Central Siberia. 11th July 1995. O. Kosterin