Moraceae


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Related to Moraceae: Apocynaceae, Bombacaceae
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Noun1.Moraceae - trees or shrubs having a milky juice; in some classifications includes genus Cannabis
dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
order Urticales, Urticales - an order of dicotyledonous plants including Moraceae and Urticaceae and Ulmaceae
genus Morus, Morus - type genus of the Moraceae: mulberries
genus Maclura, Maclura - yellowwood trees or shrubs
Artocarpus, genus Artocarpus - evergreen Asiatic trees now grown through the tropics: breadfruit; jackfruit
Ficus, genus Ficus - large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees
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heterophylla) is a species of tree in the Artocarpus genus of the mulberry family (Moraceae).
lituratus was the most diverse, with all identified fruit families being identified; however, a greater intake was observed of Moraceae fruits (78.2%), represented by Ficus sp., in addition to Solanaceae (13%) and, in smaller quantities, seeds of Cecropiaceae, Myrtaceae and other undetermined species (Table 3).
Este exito corrobora los resultados obtenidos en Cuba, por Diaz y Sanchez (1998), en que entre muchas especies listadas como sustratos para la nidificacion, tambien en area urbana, aquellas de las familias Moraceae y Bignoniaceae fueron las mas importantes.
They are papain from Carica Papaya from Moraceae [20], Ficin from Ficus carica from Moraceae [8], Calatropin from Calatropis gigantean from Asclepiadaceae [21], Euphorbain from Euphorbia lathyris from Euphorbiaceae [6] and Eravatamin of Ervatomia coronaria [22].
Las familias mas representativas son Moraceae, Sapotaceae, Laureaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Meliaceae, Burseraceae, Sapindaceae, Piperaceae, Rubiaceae, Leguminoseae y Araliaceae (Paniagua et al., 2003).
32 Fatoua villosa (Thunb.) Moraceae Floyd, Maxwell s.n., Nakai 9/20/1995 Gymnocladus dioica (L.) Caesalpiniaceae Floyd, N.A.