Artocarpeae

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids I
Ordo: Rosales

Familia: Moraceae
Tribus: Artocarpeae
Genera: Artocarpus – Batocarpus – Clarisia – Prainea – Treculia

Name

Artocarpeae Lam. & DC., Syn. Pl. Fl. Gall. 183. (1806)

Type genus: Artocarpus J.R. Forst. & G. Forst. Char. Gen. Pl. 101, t. 51a–f. (1775) nom. cons.

References

Lamarck, J.B.A.P. de Monnet & Candolle, A.P. de 1806. Synopsis Plantarum in Flora Gallica Descriptarum 183.
Clement, W.L. & Weiblen, G.D. 2009. Morphological evolution in the mulberry family (Moraceae). Systematic Botany 34(3): 530–552. DOI: 10.1600/036364409789271155 PDF Reference page.
Zerega, N.J. & Gardner, E.M. 2019. Delimitation of the new tribe Parartocarpeae (Moraceae) is supported by a 333-gene phylogeny and resolves tribal level Moraceae taxonomy. Phytotaxa 388(4): 253-265. DOI: 10.11646/PHYTOTAXA.388.4.1 Open access Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2024. Artocarpeae. Published online. Accessed: Mar. 6 2024. Reference page.
Tropicos.org 2016. Artocarpeae. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 27 Mar. 2016.

Vernacular names
English: Breadfruit Tribe

Artocarpeae is a tribe within the plant family Moraceae. It includes 7 to 12 genera and 70 to 87 species including Artocarpus altilis, the breadfruit.
Description

Species in the Artocarpeae are tropical trees or shrubs which, like all members of the Moraceae, produce latex. Most are dioecious, although some are monoecious. The male and female inflorescences include a variety of elongate or compact structures. The Artocarpeae is the least homogeneous of the five tribes that make up the Moraceae.[1]
Taxonomy

The tribe is based on the genus Artocarpus, the largest and best-known genus in the group. The first post-Linnaean description of the species was done by Sydney Parkinson during James Cook's first voyage to the Pacific. Parkinson, an artist employed by Joseph Banks, died on the return leg of the voyage and his descriptions were published posthumously by his brother Stanfield Parkinson in 1773 in A Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas. Parkinson named the species Sitodium altile. Three years later, Johann Reinhold Forster and Georg Forster published a description of the species using the name Artocarpus communis.[2] Over the next 160 years the name Artocarpus was much more widely used, leading to its preservation as a conserved name.[3]
Distribution

Members of the Artocarpeae are native to tropical Asia, the Indo-Pacific, southern Africa, Madagascar and the Neotropics. In addition, members of the genus Artocarpus are cultivated throughout the tropics, especially Artocarpus altilis, the breadfruit, and A. heterophyllus, the jackfruit.[2]

The native range of Artocarpus, the largest genus, includes tropical Asia, Indonesia, New Guinea, the Philippines and Micronesia. Artocarpus altilis, was introduced across Oceania by Polynesians colonists.[2] Batocarpus and Clarisia are native to the Neotropics.[4] Hulletia is native to Southeast Asia, Parartocarpus and Prainea (sometimes included in Artocarpus) to the Indo-Pacific and Treculia to tropical Africa and Madagascar.[4]
Genera

Artocarpus – Breadfruit, jackfruit
Batocarpus
Clarisia
Hullettia

in a new tribe parartocarpeae

Parartocarpus

in a new tribe parartocarpeae

Prainea
Treculia[5]

References

Berg, Cornelis C. (2001). "Moreae, Artocarpeae, and Dorstenia (Moraceae), with Introductions to the Family and Ficus and with Additions and Corrections to Flora Neotropica Monograph 7". Flora Neotropica. 83: 1–346. ISBN 978-0-89327-439-9.
Zerega, Nyree J. C.; Diane Ragone; Timothy J. Motley (2005). "Systematics and Species Limits of Breadfruit (Artocarpus, Moraceae)" (PDF). Systematic Botany. 30 (3): 603–15. doi:10.1600/0363644054782134.
Fosberg, F. R. (1939). "Nomenclature Proposals for the 1940 Botanical Congress". American Journal of Botany. 26 (4): 229–31. doi:10.2307/2436494. JSTOR 2436494.
Zerega, Nyree J. C.; Wendy L. Clement; Shannon L. Datwyler; George D. Weiblen (2005). "Biogeography and divergence times in the mulberry family (Moraceae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 37 (2): 402–16. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.418.1442. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.07.004. PMID 16112884.
"Genera of Moraceae tribe Artocarpeae". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 2009-03-11.