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Zelkova schneideriana; photograph Bostonian13, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SABostonian13, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Zelkova schneideriana Hand.-Mazz.

Schneider’s zelkova; Chinese Zelkova; Southern Elm

Ulmaceae · China South-Central, China North-Central +2

No habitat climate
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Zelkova schneideriana, photograph Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsZelkova schneideriana, photograph Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia CommonsZelkova schneideriana, photograph Bostonian13, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsZelkova schneideriana, photograph Bostonian13, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsZelkova schneideriana, photograph Bostonian13, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsZelkova schneideriana, photograph Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons 8 photographs ›

Summary

Zelkova schneideriana, the Chinese zelkova (a name it shares with other members of its genus), is a species of flowering plant in the family Ulmaceae. It is found in southeastern Tibet, and central and southern China, usually alongside streams. A fast-growing deciduous tree with attractive exfoliating bark, it can reach 35 m (115 ft) tall and have a DBH of 80 cm (31 in). Although highly resistant to honey fungus, it can still (rarely) be afflicted with Dutch elm disease.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Zelkova schneideriana", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 57 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 57 of the 57 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.
NativeChina South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast, Tibet · 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 marker31.237, 120.407 · in the densest population, 17 records (30% 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 57 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 55 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 4 km away. 4 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 57 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 openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 57 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: Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Bostonian13, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3); Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Zelkova 5 in the reference

Zelkova abelicea Zelkova abelicea Cretan zelkova Photo: CC BY, fmunozZelkova carpinifolia Zelkova carpinifolia Caucasian elm Photo: CC BY, Emad TahaeiZelkova serrata Zelkova serrata Japanese zelkova Photo: CC BY, りなべるZelkova sicula Zelkova sicula Sicilian zelkova Photo: CC BY-SA, This illustration was made by Citron Zelkova sinica Chinese zelkova

Names & registers

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The record

Family
Ulmaceae
Described by
Hand.-Mazz.
Native to
China South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast +1
Wild records
57 in range · 55 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; 4 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (4 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-2257 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 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 nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
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 13 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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