MORACEAEBelotindos; Benemerito; Divino; San Andres

Background • Belongs to the order Rosales• 40 genera; 1100 species• have a worldwide distribution, from tropical to temperate

regions• Economic importance includes fruit trees: Artocarpus altilis

(breadfruit), Ficus carica (edible fig), and Morus spp. (mulberry);

a) paper, rubber, and timber treesb) cultivated ornamentals, especially Ficus spp., figs; the

leaves of Morus alba are the food source of silkworm moth larvae.

Characteristics• Plant habit -> monoecious or dioecious

trees, shrubs, lianas, and herbs, often with laticifers bearing a milky latex.

• Roots -> prop or buttress• Leaves -> simple [rarely compound], spiral

or opposite, stipulate.• Inflorescence -> axillary and variable,

consisting of a spike, raceme,

Characteristics• Flowers -> unisexual, small, actinomorphic, hypogynous or

epigynous.• Gynoecium -> syncarpous, with a superior or inferior ovary,

2 [3] carpels and 1 [2 3] locules• Style -> typically 2• Ovules -> solitary, anatropous to campylotropous, and

bitegmic• Stamen -> opposite and usually as many as the perianth

parts• Anthers -> dithecal or monothecal• P (0-10) A 1-6 G (2) [(3)], superior or inferior.

Characteristics• Placentation -> apical (to subapical)• Perianth -> uniseriate [rarely biseriate], the

perianth parts basally connate, • Fruit -> multiple of achenes, each unit achene

often surrounded by the accrescent, fleshy perianth (resembling a drupe) or borne on a fleshy compound receptacle

• Seeds -> 1 per unit fruit, albuminous or exalbuminous.

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