Carica

Trees, usually dioecious, fast-growing, unarmed; trunk usually simple, soft-wooded. Leaves clustered at apex of stem and at ends of branches, deeply 7-11-palmatilobed, with lobes +/-irregularly and deeply pinnatifid or coarsely toothed. Male flowers with small cupuliform calyx with 5 triangular to linear lobes; corolla lobes shorter than tube; filaments free, arising in corolla throat, those of outer series alternipetalous and exserted, those of inner series epipetalous with very short filaments; pistillode acicular. Female flowers with cupuliform calyx with short teeth; petals +/-free; ovary 1-locular, 5-angular; ovules borne on parietal placenta; stigmas flabellate, fimbriate to deeply, +/-dichotomously divided. Fruit 1-locular.