Fatoua

(Fatoua)

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Description

Fatoua is a genus of flowering plants in the mulberry family(Moraceae). It is distributed in two or three species from East Asia to Australia , the Pacific Islands and Madagascar . These are annual or perennial herbaceous plants without milk juice . They grow upright and reach stature heights of up to 80 cm. The leaves are alternate . The paper-like leaf blade is broadly oval to triangularly oval. The leaf margin is serrated. The two stipules are not fused and are laterally on the petioles, but they fall off early. The plants are monoecious getrenntgeschlechtig ( monoecious ). The Blattachselständ inflorescences are short, but clearly stalked, flower -shaped cymes . The inflorescences usually contain flowers of both sexes. The male flowers have a four-lobed, bell-shaped calyx, and the stamens are curled in the bud. The female ones have a bar-shaped four- to five-lobed calyx. The fruit is a roundish little achene.

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Rosales
Family:Moraceae
Genus:Fatoua
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