Ulmus parvifolia Jacq.

Ulmus parvifolia Jacq., Pl. Rar. Hort. Schoenbr. 3: 6, t. 262 (1798).

Ulmus parvifolia Jacq. 1798; Photos Paco Garin

Latinh name: 

Ulmus parvifolia Jacq. 1798 

Family: 

ULMACEAE.

Synonyms name: 

Microptelea parvifolia (Jacq.) Spach; Planera parvifolia (Jacq.) Sweet; U. chinensis Pers.; U. coreana Nakai; U. japonica Siebold; U. sieboldii Daveau; Ulmus shirasawana Daveau.

Description: 

Trees, to 25 m tall, d.b.h. to 100 cm, deciduous. Crown broadly orbicular. Bark gray to grayish brown, ± smooth, exfoliating into irregular scale-like flakes. Branchlets dark brown, densely pubescent when young, never winged. Winter buds reddish brown, ovoid-orbicular, glabrous. Petiole 2-6 mm, pubescent; leaf blade lanceolate-ovate to narrowly elliptic, lamina on two sides of midvein unequal in length and width, 2.5-5 × 1-2 cm, thick, abaxially pea green and pubescent when young, adaxially dark green, lustrous, and pubescent only on midvein, base oblique, margin obtusely and irregularly simply serrate, apex acute to obtuse; midvein depressed; secondary veins 10-15 on each side of midvein. Inflorescences fascicled cymes, 3-6-flowered. Pedicel very short, pubescent. Perianth funnelform; tepals 4. Samaras tan to brown, occasionally dark red-brown, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, 10-13 × 6-8 mm; stalk 1-3 mm, shorter than perianth, sparsely pubescent; perianth persistent or tardily deciduous. Seed at center or toward apex of samara. Below 800 m. 

Distribution: 

China, India, Japan, N Korea, Vietnam. In iturraran is located in area 3.