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Morus

L. (1753)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Rosales Family: Moraceae Genus: Morus

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Deciduous trees or shrubs with milky sap.

Stems:

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate. Blades entire or 3–5–lobed. Margins serrate–dentate. Palmately 3-veined or 5-veined from base. Petiolate. Stipules lanceolate, deciduous.

Flowers: Flowers in axillary, pedunculate, pendulous spikes. Flowers small, unisexual (and the plants monoecious or dioecious). Calyx of 4 sepals, connate at base, in fruit becoming thickened, fleshy, enveloping the drupe, the sepals of adjacent flowers joined into a syncarp. Corolla (petals) absent. Stamens 4, absent in pistillate flowers; filaments inflexed in bud; anthers dithecal, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary superior, 2-celled, only 1 cell developing, pistillode present in staminate flowers; ovules 1 per cell; style deeply 2-lobed.

Fruit: Drupes with crustaceous endocarp. Seeds ca. 1–2 mm long; compressed.

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Historical Distribution

Accepted Subtaxa (in Hawai'i) (2)

Morus alba L.
Morus indica L.

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Island Status

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Sp. Pl.: 986 (1753)

Occurrences

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