Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Carica papaya
Caricaceae Dumort.
Carica papaya L. , legitimate, scientific
Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1036 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Habitat in Indiis."
Bailey, F.M. in Meston, A. (ed.) (1889), Botany of the Bellenden-Ker Expedition. Report of the Government Scientific Expedition to the Bellenden-Ker Range upon the Flora and Fauna of that part of the Colony: 43 [secondary reference]
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 220 [secondary reference]
common name: Papaw [n/a]
Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Caricaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 163-164 [secondary reference]
common name: Papaya [n/a] common name: Pawpaw [n/a]
Williams, D.G. (1994), Vegetation and flora of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Atoll Research Bulletin 404: 22 [secondary reference]
common name: Pawpaw [n/a]
  • Vernacular: Katis
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NI (doubtfully naturalised)
Percy-Bower, J.M. & Parker, C.M. (24 June 2021), Updates to Western Australia’s vascular plant census for 2020. Nuytsia 32: 2 [secondary reference]
  • Text: "New naturalised record for WA. G.J. Keighery in litt. (15/01/2020)."