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Interesting Facts
Description
Family Moraceae
Trees
, shrubs
, vines
, or rarely herbs, frequently with milky
or watery latex, sometimes spiny
. Stipules present, frequently caducous
. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite; petiole
often present and well-defined; leaf blade
simple
, sometimes with cystoliths
, margin
entire or palmately lobed
, venation
pinnate or palmate. Inflorescences axillary
, frequently paired
, racemose, spicate
, capitate, or rarely cymose
, sometimes a fig or syconium with flowers completely enclosed within a hollow receptacle. Flowers unisexual
(plants
monoecious or dioecious), small to very small. Calyx lobes
(1 or) 2-4(-8), free
or connate
, imbricate or valvate
. Corolla absent. Male flowers: stamens as many as and opposite to calyx lobes (except in Artocarpus), straight or inflexed
in bud; anthers
1- or 2-loculed, crescent-shaped to top-shaped; pistillode
(rudimentary
sterile
pistil) often present. Female flowers: calyx lobes usually 4; ovary superior, semi-inferior, or inferior, 1(or 2) -loculed; ovules 1 per locule, anatropous
or campylotropous; style branches 1 or 2; stigmas usually filiform
. Fruit usually a drupe, rarely an achene, enveloped by an enlarged calyx and/or immersed
in a fleshy
receptacle, often joined into a syncarp. Seed solitary; endosperm present or absent.
Between 37 and 43 genera and 1100–1400 species: widespread in tropical
and subtropical
areas, less common in temperate
areas; nine genera and 144 species (26 endemic, five introduced
) in China.
Economically, the most important species are those of Morus and Maclura associated with the production
of silk
. Some species in Broussonetia, Maclura, and Morus are important for paper making; some species in Artocarpus, Ficus, and Morus have edible fruit; and some species of Artocarpus and Broussonetia are used for furniture or timber.[1]
Habitat
Ecology: A tree found in humid lower montane coastal forest (500–1,000 m ). [2].
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
()
- Kenrick & Crane, 1997
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Rosidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Urticanae
()
- Takhtajan Ex Reveal, 1992
- Order:
Urticales
()
- Perleb, 1826
- Family:
Moraceae
()
- (Dumort., 1829) Gaudich., in Trinius, 1835, nom. cons.
- mulberries
- Tribe:
Castilleae
()
- Genus:
Pseudolmedia
()
- Trécul, 1847
- Specific epithet:
manabiensis
- C.C. Berg
- Botanical name: - Pseudolmedia manabiensis C.C. Berg
- Specific epithet:
manabiensis
- C.C. Berg
- Genus:
Pseudolmedia
(
- Tribe:
Castilleae
(
- Family:
Moraceae
(
- Order:
Urticales
(
- Superorder:
Urticanae
(
- Subclass:
Rosidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Radiatopses
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Pseudolmedia
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
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Further Reading
- IUCN. 2004. 2004 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 23 November 2004.
- Chang Siushih, Wu Chengyih & Cao Ziyu. 1998. Moroideae. In: Chang Siushih & Wu Chengyih, eds., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 23(1): 1219.
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
- Cornejo, X., Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2004. Pseudolmedia manabiensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 15, 2008:
- Missouri Botanical Garden
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5988582
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15631718
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:316996-2
- IUCN ID: 237198
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1028485
Footnotes
- Zhengyi Wu, Zhe-Kun Zhou & Michael G. Gilbert "Moraceae". in Flora of China Vol. 5 Page 21. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
- Cornejo, X., Montúfar, R. & Pitman, N. 2004. Pseudolmedia manabiensis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 04 February 2012. [back]
