Ulmus minor subsp. minor 'Laciniata'
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The Ulmus minor
Field Elm
Ulmus minor Mill., the Field Elm, is by far the most polymorphic of the European species, although its taxonomy remains a matter of contention. Its natural range is predominantly south European, extending to Asia Minor; its northern outposts are the Baltic islands of Öland and Gotland, although it...

 sensu latissimo cultivar 'Laciniata' was listed by Wesmael
Alfred Wesmael
Alfred Wesmael was a Belgian professor of botany. His outstanding work in taxonomy saw him invited to become Visiting Professor at the University of Washington.-Publications:...

 http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/botanists?id=149831 in Bull. Fed. Soc. Hort. Belg. 1862: 390 1863 as Ulmus campestris var. nuda subvar. microphylla laciniata Hort. Vilv..

Cultivation

Probably extinct; a specimen at the Ryston Hall http://www.rystonhall.co.uk/, Norfolk
Norfolk
Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...

, arboretum, obtained from the Späth nursery
Späth nursery
The Späth family created one of the world's most notable plant nurseries of the 19th and early 20th centuries. The nursery had been founded in 1720 by Christoph Späth but removed to the erstwhile district of Baumschulenweg in south-east Berlin in 1863 when Franz Ludwig Späth succeeded his father...

 in Berlin
Berlin
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before 1914 , was killed by the earlier strain of Dutch elm disease prevalent in the 1930s.
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