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|accepted_name=Carica
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=2: 1036. 1753
|year=1753
}}, {{Treatment/Publication
|title=Gen. Pl. ed.
|place=5, 458. 1754
|year=1754
}}
|common_names=Papaya
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Caricaceae;Carica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Caricaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Carica]]</div></div>
|etymology=Alluding to imagined resemblance of leaves or fruits to those of a fig, Ficus carica, erroneously thought to be from Caria in southwestern Asia Minor
|volume=Volume 7
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 171
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees </b>relatively short-lived. <b>Leaves</b> crowded distally on branches; glabrous. <b>Inflorescences</b>: staminate 100+-flowered, elongate; pistillate 1–several-flowered. <b>Flowers</b> each borne in axil of bract. <b>Berries</b> slightly 5-angled. <b>x</b> = 9.</span><!--

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|distribution=Fla.;Central America;South America;introduced also pantropically.
|discussion=<p>Species, in the traditional sense, ca. 20 (1 in the flora).</p><!--
--><p>V. M. Badillo (2000) considered <i>Carica</i> to consist of only one species (<i>C. papaya</i>), others being reassigned to the genus Vasconcellea A. Saint-Hilaire.</p><!--
--><p>Some species of <i>Carica</i> in the traditional sense are grown for their edible fruits or sweet and juicy seed coverings (arils), the most important being <i>C. papaya</i>.</p><!--
--><p>Species, in the traditional sense, ca. 20 (1 in the flora)</p>
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name=Carica
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Caricaceae
|distribution=Fla.;Central America;South America;introduced also pantropically.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.;Gen. Pl. ed.
|publication year=1753;1754
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|genus=Carica
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