Ulmus laevis var. celtidea
Variety of elm
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Ulmus laevis var. celtidea Rogow. [: like Celtis, the leaves] is a putative variety of European White Elm first described by Rogowicz,[1] who found the tree in 1856 along the river Dnjepr[2] near Chernihiv in what is now northern Ukraine. The type specimen is held at the National Herbarium of Ukraine.[3] The variety was first named as Ulmus pedunculata var. celtidea.[2] Litvinov (1908) considered it a species, calling it Ulmus celtidea Litv., a view not upheld by other authorities.[4]
| Ulmus laevis var. celtidea | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Embryophytes |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Ulmaceae |
| Genus: | Ulmus |
| Species: | |
| Variety: | U. l. var. celtidea |
| Trinomial name | |
| Ulmus laevis var. celtidea Rogow. | |
Similar trees were later found near Briansk in Oryol Oblast, but featured larger leaves.[5]
Description
The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, but only about 25 millimetres (1 in) in length, long-acuminate at the apex, and coarsely, sharply serrate, cuneate and sub-equal at the base. The samarae were also notably smaller than the species.[6] A 1906 herbarium specimen (leaves and fruit) in the Berlin Botanical Museum labelled U. celtidea Litv., from Orel province, Russia, has, however, leaves to 2 or 3 inches.[7]
Cultivation
One specimen which grew at the Strona Arboretum, University of Life Sciences, Warsaw, Poland, (as Ulmus celtidea Litv.) died circa 2006. The tree was grown from seed collected from a tree at the Arboretum of the Forest-Technical Academy in St. Petersburg in 1961; it is not known whether this source is still alive. No cultivars or hybrid cultivars are known.
Accessions
North America
- Morton Arboretum Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, US. Acc. no. 1302-27 Grafts (6) from Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University (received as Ulmus laevis var. celtidea).[4]
Europe
- Royal Botanic Gardens Wakehurst Place, UK. Acc. no. 1973-21047, as Ulmus laevis var. glabra obtained from a grafted tree grown at Kew now lost; provenance notes of the latter have not survived either.
Synonyms
- Ulmus celtidea: Litvinov, Schedae. Herb. Fl. Ross., vi. 167, 1908.
- Ulmus pedunculata var. celtidea. Rogow. 1856.
- Ulmus effusa Will. f. celtidea Rogow.
- (?) Ulmus pedunculata (: laevis) var. glabra: Trautvetter, Bulletin de la Classe physico-mathématique de l'Académie impériale des sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg, xv. 349 1857 [8]