Monographs Details:
Authority:
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Britton, Nathaniel L. & Millspaugh, Charles F. 1920. The Bahama Flora.
Family:
Moraceae
Moraceae
Description:
Description - Trees, shrubs or herbs, mostly with milky sap, petioled stipulate leaves, and -small monoecious or dioecious axillary clustered flowers, or the pistillate flowers solitary in some exotic genera. Calyx mostly 45-parted. Petals none. In Ficus the minute flowers are wholly inclosed in receptacles. Staminate flowers panicled, spicate or capitate, the stamens as many as the calyx-segments. Pistillate flowers capitate, spicate or cymose. Ovary superior, 1-celled in our genus. Ovule solitary, pendulous, anatropous. Styles 1 or 2. About 55 genera and 925 species, natives of temperate and tropical regions.
Description - Trees, shrubs or herbs, mostly with milky sap, petioled stipulate leaves, and -small monoecious or dioecious axillary clustered flowers, or the pistillate flowers solitary in some exotic genera. Calyx mostly 45-parted. Petals none. In Ficus the minute flowers are wholly inclosed in receptacles. Staminate flowers panicled, spicate or capitate, the stamens as many as the calyx-segments. Pistillate flowers capitate, spicate or cymose. Ovary superior, 1-celled in our genus. Ovule solitary, pendulous, anatropous. Styles 1 or 2. About 55 genera and 925 species, natives of temperate and tropical regions.