The elm cultivar Ulmus 'Acutifolia' was first described (as U. campestris acutifolia) by Masters http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?id=82765 in Hortus Duroverni 66. 1831, and later by Mottet http://kiki.huh.harvard.edu/databases/botanist_search.php?id=65665 in Nicholson http://asaweb.huh.harvard.edu:8080/databases/botanists?id=102243 & Mottet, Dictionnaire pratique d'horticulture et de jardinage 5: 383, 1898.
The tree has been described as having narrower leaves and branches more pendulous when mature.
No specimens are known to survive.