Artocarpus occurs as genus of about Sixty trees of Southeast Asian origin and a Pacific, belonging to the family moraceae Moraceae.

This genus is closely related & like hard to distinguish from either a genus Ficus.

It is everthing laticiferous trees and two or three shrubs, of which the leaves, a sprig & the stem might make a milklike sap.

A trees come monoecious, with unisexual flowers, with two sexes on the equivalent plant. A little, light-green, female flowers develop in short, overweight spikes. Fallowing pollenation it turn into the syncarpous fruit, which can be super big. A ovary is superior. A stipulated leaves vary from microscopic & entire (Artocarpus whole number) to big & lobate (Artocarpus odoratissimus). A cordate leaves of Artocarpus communis prevent inside an extended, acutely tip.

Many species in the genus bear edible fruit and come ordinarily cultivated: Artocarpus communis (Breadfruit), Artocarpus champeden (Cempedak), Artocarpus heterophyllus (Jackfruit) and Artocarpus odoratissima (Marang). In the virtually all recent revision of Artocarpus, a extremely variable metal money Artocarpus communis contains a as a result triplet metal money of breadfruit : Artocarpus altilis, Artocarpus mariannensis & Artocarpus camansi.

A title 'Artocarpus' is from either a Greek words 'artos' ( = bread) & 'karpos' ( = fruit). This title was established by Johann Reinhold Forster and J. Georg Adam Forster, the father and son team of botanist aboard the HMS Resolution on James Cook's second voyage.

Breadfruit & jackfruit come cultivated widely in the tropical SE Asia. More mintage come cultivated locally for even their timber, fruit or edible seeds.

Species
Recent phyletic locate, according to leaf arrangement, leaf anatomical characters & stipules, indicates that there are at least ii subgenera around Artocarpus : subgenus Artocarpus : floral envelope of fruit is partly connate subgenus Pseudojaca : perigone totally cognate. A genus Prainea is closely allied to the subgenus Pseudojaca, & occasionally investigator handle it as a third subgenus of Artocarpus. A below listings however follows a traditional line.

Artocarpus altilis - (involved inside The. communis) Artocarpus camansi - (involved inside The. communis) Artocarpus communis - Breadfruit, Antipolo, Camansi, Anubing; see as well African Breadfruit) Artocarpus champeden - Cempedak Artocarpus elasticus - Bendo Artocarpus heterophyllus - Nangka, Jackfruit Artocarpus hirsutus - Angily, Angelin, Hirsute Artocarpus Artocarpus lingnanensis Artocarpus mariannensis - (involved around The. communis) Artocarpus nitidus - Jackfruit Artocarpus odoratissimus - Marang Artocarpus rigidus - Monkey Jack Artocarpus tamaran

Reference
[http://www.botany2002.org/section12/abstracts/202.shtml Possible subgenera of Artocarpus] Nyree Conrad Zeregthe- Dissertation Topic : Phylogenesis of the genus Artocarpus (Moraceae), using a center on the systematics, genetic science, conservation, & biogeography of breadfruit Zerega, NJC & TJ Motley. 2001. Artocarpus (Moraceae) molecular phylogenesis & a systematics & origins of breadfruit, Artocarpus altilis. Conferred at a Botanical Society of United states annual meeting, Albuquerque, NM, August 12 – Xvi, 2001.