''Morus notabilis'' is a species of

mulberry ''Morus'', a genus of flowering plants in the family Moraceae, consists of diverse species of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, growing wild and under cultivation in many temperate world regions. Generally, the genus has 64 identif ...

found in

Yunnan Yunnan , () is a landlocked Provinces of China, province in Southwest China, the southwest of the People's Republic of China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 48.3 million (as of 2018). The capital of the province is ...

and

Sichuan Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...

provinces of China, at around in elevation. It was first formally named by

Camillo Karl Schneider Camillo Karl Schneider (7 April 1876 – 5 January 1951) was a German botanist and landscape architect. A farmer's son, he was born at Gröppendorf, in the Kingdom of Saxony, and worked as a gardener at Zeitz, Dresden, Berlin and Greifswald. Retu ...

in 1916. It has 2n = 14 chromosomes, suggesting that it is basal to all the other species in its genus. Chromosome number ranges among species in the genus; for comparison, there are 28 in '' M. indica'' and 308 in '' M. nigra''.

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notabilis Plants described in 1916 Trees of China {{Moraceae-stub