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Ulmus wallichiana Planch.

Himalayan elm

Ulmaceae · Afghanistan, Nepal +2

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Summary

Ulmus wallichiana Planch., the Himalayan elm, also known as the Kashmir elm and Bhutan elm, is a mountain tree ranging from central Nuristan in Afghanistan, through northern Pakistan and northern India to western Nepal at elevations of 800–3000 m. Its common name is occasionally used in error for the cherry bark elm Ulmus villosa, which is also endemic to the Kashmir, but inhabits the valleys, not the mountain slopes, and is dissimilar in appearance. The species is closely related to the wych elm U. glabra.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Ulmus wallichiana", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 8 of the 9 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeAfghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker34.05, 74.15 · in the densest population, 5 records (56% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 9 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 442 km away. 3 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 8 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the centre of the tenth-degree cell nearest the middle (no openly licensed record lies in the population, so no record's coordinates are published) of the densest 1° population inside the densest 2° block of the 9 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Yoav Daniel Bar-Ness, some rights reserved (CC BY); Ulmusenthu at en.wikipedia, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons; Izigabo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

Other Ulmus 27 in the reference

Ulmus alata Ulmus alata Winged elm Photo: CC BY, C FishtahlerUlmus americana Ulmus americana American elm Photo: CC BY, The Wrong IndustryUlmus × androssowii Ulmus × androssowii Narwan Photo: CC0, PedroUlmus bergmanniana Ulmus bergmanniana Ulmaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, PteleaUlmus castaneifolia Ulmus castaneifolia Ulmaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Krzysztof Ziarnek, KenraizUlmus chenmoui Ulmus chenmoui Harbin Elm Photo: Public domain, PteleaUlmus crassifolia Ulmus crassifolia Cedar elm Photo: CC BY, Linda Jo ConnUlmus davidiana Ulmus davidiana Japanese elm Photo: CC BY, Станислав ЧувановUlmus elliptica Ulmus elliptica Ulmaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Larker1Ulmus elongata Ulmus elongata Ulmaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, GaojianguoUlmus glabra Ulmus glabra Wych elm Photo: CC BY, Cyndy Sims (Parr)Ulmus × hollandica Ulmus × hollandica Dutch elm Photo: CC BY-SA, anna_485 all 28 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Ulmus erosa; Ulmus pedunculata; Ulmus wallichiana subsp. xanthoderma; Ulmus wallichiana var. tomentosa; Ulmus wallichii. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Ulmaceae
Described by
Planch.
Native to
Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan +1
Wild records
9 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22IPNI and POWO linked by Kew's number for Ulmus wallichiana Planch. (the item's: IPNI 837183-1, POWO 856961-1)
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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