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.
5 branches of this group, most-observed first
Foliaceae
sectionFoliaceae
Ulmus
sectionUlmus
Microptelea
sectionMicroptelea
Trichocarpus
sectionTrichocarpus
Dutch elm
hybridUlmus × hollandica
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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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 1664439.