Ulmus
Elms are deciduous and semi-deciduous trees comprising the genus Ulmus in the family Ulmaceae. They are distributed over most of the Northern Hemisphere, inhabiting the temperate and tropical-montane regions of North America and Eurasia, ranging southward in Western Asia to Iran, in Africa to Libya, and in Southeast Asia into Indonesia.
7 branches of this group, most-observed first
Wych Elm
speciesUlmus glabra
slippery elm
speciesUlmus rubra
Alishan elm
speciesUlmus uyematsui
Ulmus laciniata
speciesUlmus laciniata
Himalayan elm
speciesUlmus wallichiana
Ulmus bergmanniana
speciesUlmus bergmanniana
Ulmus elliptica
speciesUlmus elliptica
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 1664440.