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|accepted_name=Ulmus crassifolia
|accepted_authority=Nuttall
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n.s.
|place=5: 169. 1837
|year=1837
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|common_names=Cedar elm
|basionyms=
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|hierarchy=Ulmaceae;Ulmus;Ulmus crassifolia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Ulmaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ulmus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Ulmus crassifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> 24-27 m; crowns rounded to narrow. <b>Bark</b> light brown with shallow ridges and large plates. <b>Wood</b> hard. <b>Branches</b> often with opposite corky wings; twigs reddish brown, pubescent. <b>Buds</b> brown, apex acute, pubescent; scales dark brown, shiny, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole ca. 1.5 mm, pubescent. <b>Leaf</b> blade ovate to elliptic, 2.5-5 × 1.3-2 cm, base oblique or rounded to cuneate, margins crenate to doubly serrate, apex obtuse; surfaces abaxially softly pubescent, adaxially harshly pubescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> fascicles, 2-5-flowered, 0.5 cm; pedicel 0.75-1 cm. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx deeply lobed, more than 1/2 its length, lobes 6-9, hairy; stamens 5-6, anthers reddish purple; stigmas white, pubescent, exserted and spreading. <b>Samaras</b> green to tan, elliptic to oval, ca. 0.75-1. cm, pubescent, margins ciliate, cilia ca. 0.5 mm. <b>Seeds</b> somewhat thickened, not inflated. <b>2n</b> = 28.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer–early fall.
|habitat=Stream banks, low woods, low hillsides, roadsides, waste places, sometimes shade trees
|elevation=0-500 m
|distribution=Ark.;Fla.;La.;Miss.;Okla.;Tenn.;Tex.;n Mexico.
|discussion=<p>Except for the Suwanee River valley in Florida, <i>Ulmus crassifolia</i> has not been found east of Webster County, Mississippi. It hybridizes with <i>U. serotina</i>.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=daniel1967a
|text=Daniel, S. 1967. Ulmus crassifolia in Florida. Sida 3: 115-116.
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|id=sherman-broyles1992a
|text=Sherman-Broyles, S. L., S. B. Broyles, and J. L. Hamrick. 1992. Geographic distribution of allozyme variation in Ulmus crassifolia Nutt. Syst. Bot. 17: 33-41.
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name=Ulmus crassifolia
|author=
|authority=Nuttall
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ulmaceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer–early fall.
|habitat=Stream banks, low woods, low hillsides, roadsides, waste places, sometimes shade trees
|elevation=0-500 m
|distribution=Ark.;Fla.;La.;Miss.;Okla.;Tenn.;Tex.;n Mexico.
|reference=daniel1967a;sherman-broyles1992a
|publication title=Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc., n.s.
|publication year=1837
|special status=
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|genus=Ulmus
|species=Ulmus crassifolia
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