Moraceae
Genera : 40 Species: 1,000	Links to Genus Directory of Images: Artocarpus Broussonetia Dorstenia Ficus Maclura Morus Links to Dendrology Directory of Images: Maclura pomifera Morus alba

Distribution: Tropical to subtropical with some species in temperate climates.

Economic Uses: Important for the fruits mulberry, fig and breadfruit as well as cultivated house plants.

Defining Features of Interest: The family has recently been placed in the Urticaceae by some botanists. It has laticifers containing milky juice and glandular hairs.

Fossil Evidence:Plant material from the Eocene.

Defining Morphology

Floral Features : Unisexual and monoecious or dioecious. Flowers are small and borne on inflorescences of various types. Apetalous.

Fruit and Seed Features : Fruit an achene, multiple or synconium. Seed with endosperm present or lacking. Placentation is apical.

Vegetative Features : Habit is as shrubs, trees and woody vines. Leaves are simple and alternate or opposite with entire, toothed or lobed margins. Stipules are present.