elms
Ulmus
Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the flowering plant genus Ulmus in the plant family Ulmaceae. The genus first appeared in the Miocene geological period about 20 million years ago, originating in what is now central Asia. These trees flourished and spread over most of the Northern Hemisphere, inhabiting the temperate and tropical-montane regions of North America and Eurasia, presently ranging southward across the Equator into Indonesia.
12 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Oreoptelea
subgenusOreoptelea
Ulmus
subgenusUlmus
Ware's elm
hybridUlmus × intermedia
Ulmus ismaelis
speciesUlmus ismaelis
Indoptelea
subgenusIndoptelea
Ulmus gaussenii
speciesUlmus gaussenii
Ulmus boissieri
speciesUlmus boissieri
Ulmus harbinensis
speciesUlmus harbinensis
Ulmus pseudopropinqua
speciesUlmus pseudopropinqua
Ulmus chumlia
speciesUlmus chumlia
Ulmus × mesocarpa
hybridUlmus × mesocarpa
Ulmus × brandisiana
hybridUlmus × brandisiana
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.485
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.208
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.846
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.357
In the stacks
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 53549.