[1] It was classified by Frank Meyer in Fengtai in 1908,[2] and introduced to the United States by him from the Peking Botanical Garden[1] as Weeping Chinese Elm.

[6][7] Frank Meyer's clone from China is a straggling, asymmetrical tree with twisting, often level boughs and occasional tangled branch-ends, and with long pendulous pinnate branchlets, like stouter versions of 'Pinnato-ramosa'.

[1] The tree probably survives in the Longenecker Horticultural Gardens, University of Wisconsin;[12] however, all the specimens grown at the Morton Arboretum, Illinois, obtained in the 1950s had either died or been felled by 2008 because of their poor condition.

[14] Two others stand at the intersection of Royal Crescent and Dundonald St and at 47 York Rd (formerly Trinity railway station).

A probable example grows at the Friston Forest car park in East Sussex, England; cloned in 2011, a specimen is now under analysis at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew.