Broussonetia l'hér. ex Vent.

Broussonetia (en), Mûrier-à-papier (fr)

Genus

Angiosperms > Rosales > Moraceae

Characteristics

Trees, shrubs, or climbers, deciduous, with latex; monoecious or dioecious. Winter buds small. Stipules free, lateral, ovate-lanceolate, caducous. Leaves alternate, spirally arranged or distichous; leaf blade simple to palmately lobed, margin toothed; primary veins 3-5 and plinerved, secondary veins pinnate. Male inflorescences axillary, spicate or ± capitate, many-flowered. Female inflorescences densely capitate to ± elongated; bracts clavate, persistent. Male flowers: calyx (3 or) 4-lobed, valvate; stamens inflexed in bud. Female flowers: calyx lobes connate into a tube, apically entire or 3-or 4-lobed, persistent; ovary enclosed, stipitate; style lateral; stigma linear, often with vestigial second lobe at base. Fruit densely aggregated into globose syncarp. Syncarp globose; pericarp membranous, enlarged; exocarp fleshy. Cotyledons orbicular, flat, or conduplicate; embryo curved.
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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.
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Images

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Distribution

Broussonetia l'hér. ex world distribution map, present in Australia, China, Panama, and United States of America

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:331428-2
WFO ID wfo-4000005505
COL ID 62GS7
BDTFX ID 86034
INPN ID 190064
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Synonyms

Broussonetia l'hér. ex Chlorophora Stenochasma

Lower taxons

Broussonetia kazinoki Broussonetia harmandii Broussonetia kaempferi Broussonetia monoica Broussonetia papyrifera