Ulmaceae

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Ulmaceae - a dicot family of the order Urticales including: genera Ulmus, Celtis, Planera, Tremaelm family, family Ulmaceaedicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationorder Urticales, Urticales - an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceaegenus Ulmus, Ulmus - type genus of family Ulmaceae; deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves; widely distributed in temperate regionsCeltis, genus Celtis - large genus of trees and shrubs with berrylike fruitgenus Planera, Planera - a deciduous tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in the southeastern United Statesgenus Trema, Trema - an evergreen tree of the family Ulmaceae that grows in tropical America and Africa and Asia

Ulmaceae

[əl′mās·ē‚ē] (botany) A family of dicotyledonous trees in the order Urticales distinguished by alternate stipulate leaves, two styles, a pendulous ovule, and lack of a latex system.

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Tall tree, over 100ft. Leaves edible, can be marinated in sauce and dried into snack “chips”. Bark tea used for colds, cramps, diarrhea, bleeding (astringent), hemorrhoids, cancer, coughs.

Ulmaceae

a family of dicotyledonous plants. They are deciduous or evergreen trees; the leaves are simple, alternate, serrate or smooth, and for the most part asymmetric, with early falling stipules. The flowers are small, plain, and anemophilous; they are gathered either into bundles or into capitate or racemose inflorescences; sometimes there are one to three blossoms in the axils of the leaves. The perianth is simple and laciniate, and there are four to 12 stamens. The upper ovary is composed of two carpels and is unilocular and monospermous. The fruits are achenes (samaras), nuts, or stone fruits, often with excrescences in the shape of wings, rods, or combs.

There are 15 genera, comprising more than 150 species (including the Celtidaceae), found in temperate and tropical zones. There are three genera in the USSR: Ulmus (ten species), Celtis (two species), and Zelkova (one species). In the southern treeless regions of the northern hemisphere, the Ulmaceae are often a basic variety planted for foliage. The wood of many species is used in construction, machine building, and the furniture industry..Ulmaceae is an old relic family.

REFERENCE

Takhtadzhian, A. L. Sistema i filogeniia tsvetkovykh rastenii. Moscow-Leningrad, 1966.I. A. GRUDZINSKAIA

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noun a dicot family of the order Urticales including: genera Ulmus, Celtis, Planera, Trema

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