Moraceae.

Moraceae.

Trees or shrubs often with milky latex and alternate stipulate leaves ;flowers unisexual; perianth usually of 4members, bent inwards or straight in the bud ; gynoecium of 2 carpels which one shows various degrees of abortion; ovary unilocular and 1-0vuled ; fruit an achene or drupe-like, but commonly a multiple fruit arises by union of fruits of different flowers.

Moraceae

1 (a) Male and female flowers borne inside a closed, urceolate fleshy receptacle (hypanthodium), Fruit a syconium – 2

1 (b) Male and female flowers borne externally, in a dense to lax catkin, spike or head – Morus alba

2 (a) Sessile fig – 3

2 (b) Shortly pedicilate figs – Ficus virens

3 (a) Leaves less than 15 cm long – 4

3 (b) Leaves more than 15 cm long; – 5

4 (a) Leaves basally cupuliform – Ficus benghalensis var. krishnae

4 (b) Leaves not cupuliform – Ficus benghalensis var. benghalensis

5 (a)Lateral nerve less than 10 – 6

5 (a)Lateral nerve more than 10 – Ficus elastica

6 (a) lateral nerves 4-7 (-8) pairs, – Ficus glomerulata

6 (b) lateral nerves 6-9 pairs – Ficus religiosa