1. MORACEAE Belotindos; Benemerito; Divino; San Andres

2. Background Belongs to the order Rosales 40 genera; 1100 species have a worldwide distribution, from tropical to temperate regions Economic importance includes fruit trees: Artocarpusaltilis(breadfruit), Ficuscarica(edible fig), and Morus spp. (mulberry); paper, rubber, and timber trees cultivated ornamentals, especially Ficusspp., figs; the leaves of Morus alba are the food source of silkworm moth larvae.

3. Characteristics Plant habit -> monoeciousor dioecioustrees, shrubs, lianas, and herbs, often with laticifers bearing a milky latex. Roots -> prop or buttress Leaves -> simple [rarely compound], spiral or opposite, stipulate. Inflorescence -> axillary and variable, consisting of a spike, raceme,

4. Characteristics Flowers-> unisexual, small, actinomorphic, hypogynousor epigynous. Gynoecium -> syncarpous, with a superior or inferior ovary, 2 [3] carpels and 1 [2 3] locules Style -> typically 2 Ovules-> solitary, anatropous to campylotropous, and bitegmic Stamen -> opposite and usually as many as the perianthparts Anthers -> dithecalor monothecal P (0-10) A 1-6 G (2) [(3)], superior or inferior.

5. Characteristics Placentation -> apical (to subapical) Perianth-> uniseriate [rarely biseriate], the perianth parts basally connate, Fruit -> multiple of achenes, each unit achene often surrounded by the accrescent, fleshy perianth(resembling a drupe) or borne on a fleshy compound receptacle Seeds -> 1 per unit fruit, albuminous or exalbuminous.

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