Ulmus laevis var. celtidea
| Ulmus laevis var. celtidea | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Ulmaceae |
| Genus: | Ulmus |
| Species: | Ulmus laevis |
| Trinomial name | |
| Ulmus laevis var. celtidea Rogow. | |
Ulmus laevis var. celtidea Rogow. was 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]
Similar trees were later found near Briansk in Oryol Oblast, but featured larger leaves.[4]
Description
The leaves were oblong-lanceolate, but only about 25 millimetres (1 in) in length, long-acuminate at the apex, and coarsely, sharpely serrate, cuneate and sub-equal at the base. The samarae were also notably smaller than the species [5]
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
- Morton Arboretum acc. no. 1302-27 Grafts (6) from Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University (received as Ulmus laevis var. celtidea).
- Royal Botanic Gardens Wakehurst Place, 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 pedunculata (: laevis) var. glabra: Trautvetter, Bull. Phys. Math. Acad. Imp. Sc. St. Petersburg, xv. 349 1857.
- Ulmus effusa Will. f. celtidea Rogow.
References
- ↑ Rogowicz, A. S. (1869). Fl. Kief. 229, 1869.
- 1 2 Heybroek, H. M., Goudzwaard, L, Kaljee, H. (2009). Iep of olm, karakterboom van de Lage Landen (:Elm, a tree with character of the Low Countries). KNNV, Uitgeverij. ISBN 9789050112819
- ↑ Specimen at the Herbarium of P. Rogowich, National Herbarium of Ukraine as Ulmus effusa Will. f. celtidea Rogow.
- ↑ Chitrovo, Bull. Soc. Nat. Orel i. 50, 1907
- ↑ Elwes, H. J. & Henry, A. (1913). The Trees of Great Britain & Ireland. Vol. VII. pp 1848–1929. Private publication.
External links
- Ecology of the European White Elm
- Photo of type specimen of Ulmus celtidea (Rogov.) Litw. at National Herbarium of Ukraine
