Moraceae

=Family description=
 * Trees, shrubs, hemi-epiphytes and climbers**, with white or cream latex, often in all parts and flowing richly after damage, plants monoecious or dioecious.
 * Leaves** simple to compound, entire or lobed, spirally arranged or rarely opposite (//Ficus//), pinnately or palmately veined. Stipules present, small or large, forming a cap over the bud, and leaving clear scars that encircle the twigs after they drop.
 * Inflorescences** axillary panicles, racemes, spikes, or umbels, or highly condensed.
 * Flowers** unisexual or bisexual, (2)-4-merous, sometimes inside an urn-shaped inflorescence (Figs in //Ficus//). Calyx usually 4-lobed; petals none. Stamens usually 4, opposite the calyx lobes, or reduced to 3, 2, or 1, rarely up to 8. Ovary superior or inferior, or immersed in the inflorescence axis, 2-(3)-locular, with 1 often rudimentary; 1 ovule per locule; styles 2 or 1.
 * Fruit** a drupe or united into a large fleshy compound structure called syncarp. Seeds large or small; with or without endosperm.

=General info=
 * Distribution** A family of about 48 genera and 1200 species, mostly in tropical areas, but also in warm temperate areas in both hemispheres.
 * Ecology** In closed and open forests, but more common in light rich places and seasonal climates. Important food plant for frugivores because it fruits all year round.
 * Uses** An important family for cultivated and wild fruit trees (//Artocarpus, Ficus//), ornamental and shade trees (//Ficus//), latex bearing trees (//Ficus//), timber trees (//Ficus, Artocarpus, Parartocarpus//), trees with medicinal properties (//Antiaris, Ficus, Parartocarpus//), food trees for silk worms (//Morus//), and religious importance (//Ficus religiosa//, for Budhists).
 * Similar to** Urticaceae, but these have no milky sap.

=Treated genera=
 * Artocarpus
 * Ficus
 * Morus
 * Streblus

Artocarpus integer

Ficus grossularioides

Morus

Streblus asper