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[Perennial] shrub, [ vine] tree, generally with milky juice; monoecious or dioecious.
Leaf: alternate [ opposite], petioled, generally simple, entire to lobed, evergreen or deciduous; stipules present.
Inflorescence: raceme, spike, head, or flowers enclosed in thick receptacle, axillary.
Flower: unisexual or bisexual, small, ± radial; sepals generally 4, free or fused at base; petals 0; stamens generally 4, opposite sepals; ovary generally superior, 1-chambered, style simple or 2-parted.
Fruit: achenes many within fleshy calyces or surrounded by fleshy inflorescence receptacle.
37 genera, 1100 species: tropics, subtrop, some temperate; many cultivated (Ficus, fig; Artocarpus, breadfruit, jackfruit; Morus, mulberry). Insect- or wind-pollinated. —Scientific Editors: Douglas H. Goldman, Bruce G. Baldwin.

Key to Moraceae

Shrub, tree, [ vine, occasionally rooted on other plants], unarmed; monoecious.
Stem: buds inside conic stipules; stipule scar encircling stem.
Leaf: entire or lobed, deciduous or evergreen; major veins palmate.
Inflorescence: flowers internal, enclosed in an obovoid [ spheric] inflorescence receptacle with a small, scaly opening.
Pistillate flower: style simple.
Fruit: achenes many within fleshy inflorescence receptacle.
± 800 species: tropics, subtrop. (Latin: fig) Pollination generally by small wasps. Reports of Ficus pseudocarica Miq. and Ficus palmata Forssk. based on misidentified specimens of Ficus carica (Whittemore 2006 Sida 22:769–775).

Plant < 10 m.
Leaf: petiole 4–12 cm; blade 11–32 cm, widely ovate, ± scabrous adaxially, hairy abaxially, palmately lobed, major lobes generally 3–7, generally > 1/2 to base.
Fruit: 5–8 cm, obovoid, green, yellow, or red to purple.
Creeks, riverbanks, floodplains, seeps, disturbed areas; < 800 m. Sierra Nevada Foothills, Great Central Valley, San Francisco Bay Area, South Coast;

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Chart based on elevation range in Manual and elevations and coordinates of CCH records. Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. Note: About half of the CCH records include both elevation and coordinates.	Data provided by the participants of the Consortium of California Herbaria. View all CCH records   CCH collections by month Duplicates counted once; synonyms included. Species do not include records of infraspecific taxa. Blue line denotes Manual flowering time.