Overview
Trees, deciduous; sap milky. Terminal buds surrounded by bud scales. Leaves alternate, opposite, or whorled; stipules caducous, free. Leaf blade ovate, lobed or entire, margins dentate; venation appearing palmate or weakly 3-veined from base. Staminate inflorescences pedunculate, cylindric spikes; pistillate inflorescences short-pedunculate, globose capitula. Flowers: staminate and pistillate on different plants. Staminate flowers: sepals 4, connate at base; stamens 4, inflexed. Pistillate flowers: sepals 4, connate, forming tube; ovary superior, stipitate, 1-locular; style unbranched. Fruits globose; each drupelet partly protruding from its enlarged calyx. x = 13.
Species 7-8: North America, Asia, and Pacific Islands (Polynesia).[1]
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Taxonomy
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Subclass: Dilleniidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder: Urticanae
Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order: Urticales
Dumortier, 1829
- Family: Moraceae
(mor-AY-see-ee)
Link, 1831
- Subfamily: Allioideae
- Tribe: Brodieae
- Genus: Broussonetia (broo-soh-NEE-she-uh) L'Héritier ex Ventenat, Tabl. Règn. Vég. 3: 547. 1799.
- Tribe: Brodieae
- Subfamily: Allioideae
- Family: Moraceae
(mor-AY-see-ee)
Link, 1831
- Order: Urticales
Dumortier, 1829
- Superorder: Urticanae
Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Subclass: Dilleniidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Infraphylum: Radiatopses
Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866
The Genus Broussonetia is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 37 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Genus Broussonetia: B. billardii · B. brasiliensis · B. cordata · B. cucullata · B. dissecta · B. elegans · B. greveana · B. harmandii · B. kaempferi · B. kazi · B. kazinoki (Japanese Paper Mulberry) · B. kazinoki var. ruyangensis · B. kurzii · B. lusoniensis · B. luzonica · B. maculata · B. monoica · B. navifolia · B. papirifera · B. papyrifera (Thai Paper Mulberry) · B. papyrifera 'Billardii' · B. papyrifera 'Cucullata' · B. papyrifera 'Golden Shadow' (Paper Mulberry) · B. papyrifera 'Laciniata' · B. papyrifera 'Leucocarpa' · B. papyrifera 'Macrophylla' · B. papyrifera 'Variegata' · B. plumerii · B. rupicola · B. secundiflora · B. sieboldii · B. spathulata · B. tertiaria · B. tinctoria (Indian Mulberry) · B. tricolor · B. xanthoxylon · B. zeylanica
Bibliography
- Chang Siushih, Wu Chengyih & Cao Ziyu. 1998. Moroideae. In: Chang Siushih & Wu Chengyih, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 23(1): 1219.
Footnotes
- "Broussonetia". in Flora of North America Vol. 3. Oxford University Press. Online at EFloras.org.
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