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Taxon: Ulmus pumila L.

Genus: Ulmus subgenus: Ulmus section: Ulmus
Family: Ulmaceae.
Nomen number: 40851
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:226. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project of the Natural History Museum of London.
Comment: page number verified from original publication
Name verified on: 03-Mar-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 09-Sep-2004
Species priority site is: North Central Regional PI Station (NC7).
Accessions: 1 in National Plant Germplasm System.
  • all available ) NPGS accessions ) or .
  • all available ) NPGS accessions by country.
  • Check AABGA/NAPCC contact person for genus for possible non-NPGS germplasm.


SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE STATE NOXIOUS WEED
A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links to state information or web documents:
NM*.
ªAquatic. *Terrestrial. °In seed.
Link to noxious weed information from Invaders Database System

See also subordinate taxa:


Common names:

  • dwarf elm   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  • littleleaf elm   (Source: Wiegrefe, p.c.) – English
  • Siberian elm   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  • yu shu   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  • sibirische ulme   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German

Economic importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental; revegetator   (for land reclamation fide L. Gilbert, pers. comm. 1998; F ChinaEng)
  • Weed: also potential seed contaminant   (fide Rep NCEPPC; Invasive Pl Spec)
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Distributional range:

      Native:
  • ASIA-TEMPERATE
    Siberia: Russian Federation - Eastern Siberia
    Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
    Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Amur, Primorye
    Mongolia: Mongolia
    China: China - Gansu, Hebei, Heilongjiang, Henan, Jilin, Liaoning, Nei Monggol, Ningxia, Qinghai [e.], Shaanxi, Shandong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Xizang
    Eastern Asia: Korea

      Naturalized: (links to other web resources are provided for some distributions)

References:

  • Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1959–. Flora reipublicae popularis sinicae. (F China)
  • Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage. (Zander ed16)
  • FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America. (F NAmer)
  • Jiangsu Inst. Bot., ed. v. 1; Shan. R. H., ed. v. 2. 1977–1982. Jiangsu Zhiwuzhi (Flora of Jiangsu). (F Chiangsu)
  • Kitagawa, M. 1979. Neo-lineamenta florae Manshuricae. (F Manshur)
  • Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. (F USSR)
  • Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
  • Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica. (F Iran)
  • Steward, A. N. 1958. Manual of vascular plants of the lower Yangtze valley. (F LowYangtze)
  • Todzia, C. A. & J. L. Panero. 1998. A new species of Ulmus (Ulmaceae) from southern Mexico and a synopsis of the species in Mexico. Brittonia 50:346.
  • Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands. (F Okin)
  • Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
  • Welsh, S. L. et al. 1987. A Utah flora. Great Basin Naturalist Mem. 9. (F Utah) [introd.].
  • Wiegrefe, S. 1998. pers. comm. [re. common names].
  • Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)
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Synonyms:


Check other databases for Ulmus pumila L.:

  • Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
  • Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
  • PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Ulmus pumila cultivars
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
    Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

  • Embryo drawing: U.S. National Seed Herbarium drawing
  • Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
  • Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
  • Seed: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
More:
  • Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
  • Google Images Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?40851 (09 February 2010)

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