Ulmus × brandisiana

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Ulmus × brandisiana

Hybrid parentage
U. chumlia × U. wallichiana


Origin
Kashmir

Ulmus x brandisiana is a naturally-occurring elm hybrid found across the Kashmir region, arising from the crossing of Ulmus chumlia and the Himalayan Elm, U. wallichiana. The hybrid was formally identified by Melville and Heybroek during their researches there in 1960. The leaves are intermediate in shape between the two parents. The tree is named for Sir Dietrich Brandis, the first Inspector General of Forests appointed to the sub-continent, and author of Indian Trees published in 1906; the name was earlier used by Schneider as the specific name for what was later sunk as a subspecies (xanthoderma) of the Himalayan Elm U. wallichiana. Moreover, specimens of U. chumlia were later treated as U. brandisiana by Augustine Henry.