Family: Cecropiaceae
Kingdom: Plantae Rank: Family Parent: Rosales Status: Valid
Common Names:
- Cecropiaceae - English, United States of America
Vegetative Morphology
Habit: Trees or shrubs with adventitious roots.
Leaves: Leaves simple, spirally arranged, entire or palmately lobed.
Stipules: Stipules fused, encircling the stem.
Exudate: Sap watery turning black on exposure to air.
Reproductive Morphology
Inflorescence: Inflorescence of a pair of usually branched spikes in leaf axils.
Flowers: Flowers actinomorphic, unisexual, the plants dioecious; staminate flowers with 2-4 tepals, free or fused, the stamens 1-4, free or fused; pistillate flowers with tubular perianth; ovary superior, 1-locular, the stigma 1, placentation basal.
Fruit: Fruit an achene enclosed by perianth.
Seeds: Seeds small or large, one per fruit.