Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Ulmus parvifolia
Common name
Chinese Elm
Family
Ulmaceae
Where found
Occasionally naturalised. Coast and ranges north of Kiama. Canberra. Occasionally elsewhere.
Notes
Tree to 25 m tall, semi-deciduous, suckers absent. Bark olive green to grey mottled orange-brown, and shedding in small plates. Branches drooping. Leaves alternating up the stems, 2.5–7 cm long, 15–25 mm wide, tips pointed; lower surface pale, somewhat hairless, upper surface dark green, shining, hairless; veins 7–11, margins toothed. Flowers reddish brown, anthers reddish, stigma lobes white-hairy, with 0 petals, calyx deeply lobed with 4–8 lobes, each 3–5 mm long. Flowers in 2–8-flowered clusters, produced before the leaves. Seeds with a narrow wing all round or not winged. Flowers late summer–autumn.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Ulmus~parvifolia (accessed 26 March, 2021)
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