Moraceae -- the mulberry or fig family (40-70/1,000-2,500; primarily tropical, although Morus and Maclura are common in temperates)
Habit shrubs or trees (herbs) often with milky latex
Leaves alternate, simple, stipulate with caudacous stipules that leave a circular scar
Inflorescences variable, ranging from spike-like or raceme-like in Morus to the inside-out syconium in Ficus
Special floral characters flowers imperfect, sometimes on a fleshy receptacle
Calyx (2) 4 (6) sepals distinct; inconspicuous; usually free or adnate to ovary
Corolla absent
Androecium (2) 4 (6) stamens, distinct and opposite to sepals
Gynoecium 2 carpels; connate; superior to inferior; 1 locule with 1 apical ovule (rarely 2-3 locules and 1 apical/axile ovule/locule or just one ovule in one of the locules); 2 styles
Fruit= achene or drupelet, often coalescent into a dense multiple fruit with accessory tissues
(Floral formula: Ca 4 A 4 AND Ca 4 G 2 )