Division Tracheophyta (Vascular plants) ➔ Order Brassicales ➔ Family Caricaceae (Papaya family)
Carica papaya L.
Melonenbaum Pawpaw
Synonyms:
Carica bourgeaui Solms | Carica hermaphrodita Blanco | Carica jamaicensis Urb. | Carica jimenezii (Bertoni) Bertoni | Carica mamaya Vell. | Carica papaya var. jimenezii Bertoni | Carica peltata Hook. & Arn. | Carica pinnatifida Heilb. | Carica portoricensis (Solms-Laub.) Urban | Papaya bourgeaui (Solms) Kuntze | Papaya carica Gaertn. | Papaya communis Noronha | Papaya cucumerina Noronha | Papaya papaya H.Karst. | Papaya peltata (Hook. & Arn.) Kuntze | Papaya sativa Tuss. | Papaya vulgaris DC. | Vasconcellea peltata (Hook. & Arn.) A. DC. |
References:
- Hassler M. (2016). World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World (version Jan 2015). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 2015 Annual Checklist (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Kunze T., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at www.catalogueoflife.org/col. Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.