Key to Moraceae

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Jepson Manual glossary definitions can be seen by moving your cursor over words underlined with dots.

1. Leaves pinnately veined, 

entire 

Having margins that are continuous and smooth (i.e., without teeth, lobes, etc.).

; stem axils generally with 1 stout thorn to 3 cm; fruit 9–15 cm, spheric ..... MACLURA

1' Leaves palmately 3–5-veined, lobed or not, toothed; stems unarmed; fruit 1–8 cm, obovoid to short-cylindric or ± spheric.

2. Leaf 

blade 

Expanded portion of a leaf, petal, or other structure, generally flat but sometimes rolled, cylindric, wavy, or cupped.

11–32 cm, 13–37 cm wide, 

petiole 

Leaf stalk, connecting leaf blade to stem; sometimes more or less indistinct.

4–12 cm; fruit not lobed, surface not segmented; 

buds 

1. An incompletely developed, more or less embryonic shoot, usually covered with bud scales. 2. An unopened flower, often protected by sepals.

inside conic stipules; 

stipule 

Appendage at base of petiole, generally paired, variable in form but often leaf- or scale-like, sometimes a spine.

 

scar 

Mark left by the natural separation of two structures, as a leaf scar on a stem.

encircling stem ..... FICUS

2' Leaf blade 5–16 cm, 3–16 cm wide, petiole 1–4 cm; fruit lobed, segmented; buds scaly; stipule 

scars 

Mark left by the natural separation of two structures, as a leaf scar on a stem.

obscure, not encircling stem ..... MORUS

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