Ulmus lanceifolia

Taxobox
status = LC
name = "Ulmus lanceifolia"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Rosales
familia = Ulmaceae
genus = "Ulmus"
species = "U. lanceifolia"
binomial = "Ulmus lanceifolia"
binomial_authority = Roxburgh ex Wall.
synonyms =
*"Ulmus hookeriana" Planch.
*"Ulmus lancaeafolia" Roxburgh & Wall.
*"Ulmus lancifolia" Roxburgh
*"Ulmus tonkinensis" Gagnep. (where found in China and Vietnam).

"Ulmus lanceifolia" Roxburgh, ex Wall. [http://209.85.135.104/translate_c?hl=en&u=http://www.plant.ac.cn/dan_tu/8/6856.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dulmus%2Btonkinensis%2Bac.cn%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG] , occasionally known as the Vietnam Elm, is a very large tree native to a wide area of southern Asia extending southeast and eastwards from Darjeeling in the Himalaya, through Bangladesh, southern China, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and on discontinuously into Indonesia, straddling the Equator in Sumatra and the Celebes.

Description

"Ulmus lanceifolia" can reach a maximum height of 45 m, placing it on a par with the English Elm, but with pendulous branches; the bark of the trunk exfoliates in thin scales. The leaves are borne on wing-less branchlets and are narrow, generally lanceolate, < 10 cm long by < 3.5 cm broad, and thick. The tree is deciduous in the north of its range, where it can occur at altitudes of up to 2500 m, but evergreen in the tropics. Given the latitudinal range, there is inevitably a substantial variation in its flowering time, beginning in October in the north, but advancing to February - March in the south. The obovate samarae are 12-30 mm long by 11-24 mm broad Fu, L., Xin, Y. & Whittemore, A. (2002). Ulmaceae, in Wu, Z. & Raven, P. (eds) "Flora of China", Vol. 5 (Ulmaceae through Basellaceae). Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis, USA. [http://flora.huh.harvard.edu/china/PDF/PDF05/Ulmus.pdf] ] Melville, R. & Heybroek, H. M. (1971). The Elms of the Himalaya. "Kew Bulletin" Vol. 26 (1). Royal Botanic Garden, Kew, London.] .

Pests and diseases

No information available.

Cultivation

The tree is not known to be in cultivation beyond Asia. Specimens introduced to the Netherlands by Heybroek in the 1960s did not prove hardy in the north European climate.

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