Monographs Details:
Authority:
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.
Family:
Moraceae
Moraceae
Description:
Family Description - Fls unisexual; cal of (2–)4–5(6) distinct or ± connate sep; pet none; stamens usually as many as and opposite the sep, rarely fewer or only one, often incurved in bud; ovary superior to inferior, bicarpellate, or one carpel ± reduced or even suppressed, the ovary bilocular or much more often unilocular; style or style-branches stigmatic along the inner surface, generally 2, sometimes one of them ± reduced or even wholly suppressed; ovules solitary in each locule (or one locule empty), generally pendulous and anatropous to hemitropous or campylotropous; frs generally fleshy, often connate (or ripening collectively with the receptacle) to form a syncarp; seeds with straight or more often curved embryo, the cotyledons often unequal; endosperm usually present and fatty; woody (rarely herbaceous) plants with milky juice, opposite or alternate, simple or compound lvs and small or minute fls crowded in dense clusters or heads. 40/1000.
Family Description - Fls unisexual; cal of (2–)4–5(6) distinct or ± connate sep; pet none; stamens usually as many as and opposite the sep, rarely fewer or only one, often incurved in bud; ovary superior to inferior, bicarpellate, or one carpel ± reduced or even suppressed, the ovary bilocular or much more often unilocular; style or style-branches stigmatic along the inner surface, generally 2, sometimes one of them ± reduced or even wholly suppressed; ovules solitary in each locule (or one locule empty), generally pendulous and anatropous to hemitropous or campylotropous; frs generally fleshy, often connate (or ripening collectively with the receptacle) to form a syncarp; seeds with straight or more often curved embryo, the cotyledons often unequal; endosperm usually present and fatty; woody (rarely herbaceous) plants with milky juice, opposite or alternate, simple or compound lvs and small or minute fls crowded in dense clusters or heads. 40/1000.
Common Names:
The mulberry family
The mulberry family