Flora of North America species comparison

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Broussonetia

broussonetia, paper-mulberry
Habit Trees, deciduous; sap milky.
Leaves

blade ovate, lobed or entire, margins dentate;

venation appearing palmate or weakly 3-veined from base.
Flowers

staminate and pistillate on different plants.
Staminate flowers

sepals 4, connate at base;

stamens 4, inflexed.
Pistillate flowers

sepals 4, connate, forming tube;

ovary superior, stipitate, 1-locular;

style unbranched.
Fruits

globose; each drupelet partly protruding from its enlarged calyx.
Terminal

buds surrounded by bud scales.
Staminate

inflorescences pedunculate, cylindric spikes;

pistillate inflorescences short-pedunculate, globose capitula.
x

= 13.

Broussonetia
Distribution
map from USDA
North America; Asia; and Pacific Islands (Polynesia)
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Discussion

Species 7-8 (1 in the flora).

Etymology: for Pierre Marie Auguste Broussonet (1761-1807), French biologist at Montpellier

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Parent taxa Moraceae
Subordinate taxa
B. papyrifera
Name authority L'Héritier ex Ventenat: Tabl. Règn. Vég. 3: 547. conserved
Source FNA vol. 3. Treatment author: Richard P. Wunderlin.
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