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|accepted_name=Ulmus parvifolia
|accepted_authority=Jacquin
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Pl. Hort. Schoenbr.
|place=3: 6, plate 262. 1798
|year=1798
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|common_names=Chinese elm;lacebark elm
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|hierarchy=Ulmaceae;Ulmus;Ulmus parvifolia
|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 parvifolia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> 25 m; crowns rounded, open. <b>Bark</b> olive green to gray, shedding in irregular, tan to orange plates. <b>Branches</b> long-pendulous, not winged; twigs tan to dark brown, glabrous to pubescent. <b>Buds</b> acute to obtuse; scales brown, pubescent. <b>Leaves</b>: petiole 2-6(-8) mm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent with short hairs. <b>Leaf</b> blade elliptic to ovate-obovate, (3.5-)4-5(-6) × 1.5-2.5 cm, base oblique, margins mostly singly serrate (some doubly serrate), apex acute; surfaces abaxially pale, glabrate, adaxially dark green, lustrous, glabrous; lateral veins forking 5 or more times per side. <b>Inflorescences</b> fascicles, (2-)3-4(-8)-flowered; pedicel 8-10 mm. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx reddish brown, deeply lobed, lobes (3-)4-5, glabrous; stamens 3-4; anthers reddish; stigma lobes white-pubescent, exserted, recurved and spreading with maturity. <b>Samaras</b> green to light brown, elliptic to ovate, ca. 1 cm, not winged, seeds nearly filling samara, notched at apex, glabrous. <b>Seeds</b> thickened, not inflated. <b>2n</b> = 28.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering late summer–early fall.
|habitat=In woods and in disturbed sites
|elevation=0-400 m
|distribution=Calif.;D.C.;Ga.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Va.;native to Asia (China and Japan).
|discussion=<p><i>Ulmus parvifolia</i> appears to naturalize more easily than <i>U. procera</i> or <i>U. glabra</i>. It has been reported but not documented from Idaho and West Virginia.</p><!--
--><p><i>Ulmus parvifolia</i> is valued in cultivation for its pleasing form and ornamental bark. It is ruderal primarily in the southeastern United States.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Ulmus parvifolia
|authority=Jacquin
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Ulmaceae
|phenology=Flowering late summer–early fall.
|habitat=In woods and in disturbed sites
|elevation=0-400 m
|distribution=Calif.;D.C.;Ga.;Ky.;Maine;Md.;Mass.;Va.;native to Asia (China and Japan).
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Pl. Hort. Schoenbr.
|publication year=1798
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V3/V3_1.xml
|genus=Ulmus
|species=Ulmus parvifolia
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