Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

The Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with plant names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. APNI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian vascular flora, please use the Australian Plant Census (APC) link above.

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Showing Caricaceae

Caricaceae Dumort.

APC
Plantae(reg.)
Charophyta(div.)
Equisetopsida(cl.)
Magnoliidae(subcl.)
Rosanae(superordo)
Brassicales(ordo)
Caricaceae(fam.)

Caricaceae Dumort.

, nom. cons.

, scientific

Dumortier, B.C.J. (1829), Analyse des familles de plantes

:

37, 42

[tax. nov.]

Type: Carica L.

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants

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415-418, Fig. 4-25

[secondary reference]

Takhtajan, A.L. (1997), Diversity and Classification of Flowering Plants

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209

[secondary reference]

Kubitzki, K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Caricaceae.

The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants

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57-61

[secondary reference]

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2003), An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG II.

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

:

419

[secondary reference]

Thorne, R.F. & Reveal, J.L. (2007), An Updated Classification of the Class Magnoliopsida ("Angiospermae").

Botanical Review

:

115

[secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym:

Papayaceae Blume

nom. illeg.

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2008), Australian Plant Census

:

-

APC

[secondary reference]

orthographic variant:

Caricinae Bercht. & J.Presl

orth. var.

APC Dist.: CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised)

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3

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152-153, 936

[secondary reference]

The Angiosperm Phylogeny Group (2009), An update of the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group classification for the orders and families of flowering plants: APG III.

Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society

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114

[secondary reference]

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