Carica
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Carica papaya - Papaya |
Carica is a genus of flowering plants in the family Caricaceae. Formerly treated as including about 20-25 species of short-lived evergreen pachycaul shrubs or small trees growing to 5-10 m tall, native to tropical Central and South America, recent genetic evidence has resulted in the genus being restricted to the single species Carica papaya (Papaya; syn. C. peltata, C. posoposa).
Most of the other species have been transferred to the genus Vasconcellea, with a few to the genera Jacaratia and Jarilla, as follows:
- Carica baccata = Vasconcellea microcarpa subsp. baccata
- Carica candamarcensis = Vasconcellea cundinamarcensis (Mountain papaya)
- Carica candicans = Vasconcellea candicans (Mito)
- Carica caudata = Jarilla heterophylla
- Carica cauliflora = Vasconcellea cauliflora
- Carica cestriflora = Vasconcellea cundinamarcensis
- Carica chilensis = Vasconcellea chilensis
- Carica crassipetala = Vasconcellea crassipetala
- Carica cundinamarcensis = Vasconcellea cundinamarcensis
- Carica dodecaphylla = Jacaratia spinosa
- Carica glandulosa = Vasconcellea glandulosa
- Carica goudotiana = Vasconcellea goudotiana
- Carica heterophylla = Vasconcellea microcarpa subsp. heterophylla
- Carica horovitziana = Vasconcellea horovitziana
- Carica longiflora = Vasconcellea longiflora
- Carica mexicana = Jacaratia mexicana
- Carica microcarpa = Vasconcellea microcarpa
- Carica monoica = Vasconcellea monoica
- Carica nana = Jarilla nana
- Carica omnilingua = Vasconcellea omnilingua
- Carica palandensis = Vasconcellea palandensis
- Carica papaya (Papaya)
- Carica parviflora = Vasconcellea parviflora
- Carica pentagona = Vasconcellea ×heilbornii (Babaco)
- Carica pubescens = Vasconcellea cundinamarcensis (Chilean Carica)
- Carica pulchra = Vasconcellea pulchra
- Carica quercifolia = Vasconcellea quercifolia
- Carica sphaerocarpa = Vasconcellea sphaerocarpa
- Carica spinosa = Jacaratia spinosa
- Carica sprucei = Vasconcellea sprucei
- Carica stipulata = Vasconcellea stipulata
- Carica weberbaueri = Vasconcellea weberbaueri
[edit] References
- Germplasm Resources Information Network: Carica
- Germplasm Resources Information Network: Carica species list and synonymy
- Aradhya, M. K. et al. (1999). A phylogenetic analysis of the genus Carica L. (Caricaceae) based on restriction fragment length variation in a cpDNA intergenic spacer region. Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 46: 579–586.
- Badillo, V. M. (2000). Carica L. vs. Vasconcella St. Hil. (Caricaceae) con la rehabilitacion de este ultimo. Ernstia 10: 74–79.
- Van Droogenbroeck, B. et al. (2002). AFLP analysis of genetic relationships among papaya and its wild relatives (Caricaceae) from Ecuador. Theoret. Appl. Genet. 105: 289–297.
