• Taxonomic hierarchy:

• Subspecies: Ulmus minor ssp angustifolia (Cornish Elm)
• Species: Ulmus minor (Small-leaved Elm, Cornish Elm, Jersey Elm)
• Genus: Ulmus (elms)
• Family: ULMACEAE (elms)
• Order: ROSALES (roses, elms, nettles, hops, buckthorns and figs)
• Subclass: EU-DICOTS (dicotyledonous flowering plants)
• Class: MAGNOLIOPSIDA (flowering plants)
• Phylum: TRACHEOPHYTA (vascular plants)
• Kingdom: PLANTAE (plants)
• Domain: Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
• Life: BIOTA (living things)

• Ulmus minor ssp angustifolia is also a member of:

• Trees with bark of high pH - basic-barked trees (via Ulmus)
• Trees - broadleaved and coniferous trees (via Trees with bark of high pH)
• Endomycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs - endomycorrhizal or endotrophic mycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs (via Ulmaceae)
• Broadleaved trees - broadleaved, frondose or deciduous trees (via Ulmaceae)
• Broadleaved trees and shrubs - broadleaved trees and shrubs (via Broadleaved trees)
• Trees and shrubs - trees and shrubs, including conifers (via Broadleaved trees)
• Trees, shrubs, woody and climbing plants - trees, shrubs, subshrubs and climbers, including conifers (via Broadleaved trees)
• Xylophytes - broadleaved trees, shrubs and woody climbers (via Broadleaved trees and shrubs)
• Endomycorrhizal trees and shrubs - endomycorrhizal or endotrophic mycorrhizal trees and shrubs (via Endomycorrhizal broadleaved trees and shrubs)
• Endomycorrhizal plants - plants that form endomycorrhiza (via Endomycorrhizal trees and shrubs)

Notes:

Leaves: L/B=2, smooth above, leathery, with 10 pairs of veins.

Petiole: c. 10mm.

Bud scales: fimbriate margins, no loose hairs.

The following literature was used to identify this find:

• Stace, C., 1997. New Flora of the British Isles (Ed 2), Second edition, 1130pp, Cambridge University Press