Artocarpeae
Description
Trees or shrubs (or climbers?), monoecious or dioecious, with or without uncinate hairs.
Leaves spirally arranged or distichous;
stipules fully amplexicaul to lateral or intrapetiolar, free or connate.
Inflorescences usually unisexual, axillary or cauliflorous, spicate to capitate and then clavate, globose, or discoid, pedunculate, bracteate;
Fruit large, free, with a dry pericarp or ± drupaceous, indehiscent embedded in the pulpy part of the (many-seeded) infructescence;
seed without or with scanty endosperm, embryo curved or straight, with thick, equal or unequal cotyledons.
Distribution
Asia present, Asia-Tropical, Continental Africa present, Madagascar present, extending to Australia and/or the Pacific present
This tribe comprises five genera of which four, Artocarpus (c. 45 spp.), Hullettia (2 spp.), Parartocarpus (2 spp.), and Prainea (2 spp.) occur in Asia and are speciose in Malesia, two of them, Artocarpus and Parartocarpus extending to Australia and/or the Pacific. The fifth genus, Treculia (with 3 spp.) occurs in continental Africa and Madagascar (see ).