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Wikipedia / Vasconcellea

Vasconcellea is a genus with 26 species of flowering plants in the family Caricaceae. Most were formerly treated in the genus Carica, but have been split out on genetic evidence. The genus name has also been incorrectly spelled "Vasconcella".

They are evergreen pachycaul shrubs or small trees growing to 5 m tall, native to tropical South America. Many have edible fruit similar to the closely related papaya, and some are widely cultivated in South America.

  1. Species:

  2. Vasconcellea badilloi

  3. Vasconcellea candicans

  4. Vasconcellea carvalhoae

  5. Vasconcellea cauliflora

  6. Vasconcellea chachapoyensis

  7. Vasconcellea chilensis

  8. Vasconcellea crassipetala

  9. Vasconcellea glandulosa

  10. Vasconcellea goudotiana

  11. Vasconcellea heilbornii

  12. Vasconcellea horovitziana

  13. Vasconcellea joseromeroi

  14. Vasconcellea jossei

  15. Vasconcellea lanceolata

  16. Vasconcellea longiflora

  17. Vasconcellea microcarpa

  18. Vasconcellea monoica

  19. Vasconcellea omnilingua

  20. Vasconcellea palandensis

  21. Vasconcellea parviflora

  22. Vasconcellea pentalobis

  23. Vasconcellea peruviensis

  24. Vasconcellea pubescens (Syn. Vasconcellea cundinamarcensis) (mountain papaya)

  25. Vasconcellea pulchra

  26. Vasconcellea quercifolia

  27. Vasconcellea sphaerocarpa

  28. Vasconcellea sprucei

  29. Vasconcellea stipulata

  30. Vasconcellea weberbaueri

  31. Hybrids

  32. Vasconcellea × heilbornii (babaco)

References

  • Ghent University:

  • Badillo, V. M. (2000). Carica L. vs. Vasconcella St. Hil. (Caricaceae) con la rehabilitacion de este ultimo. Ernstia 10: 74–79.

  • Badillo, V. M. (2001). Nota correctiva Vasconcellea St. Hil. y no Vasconcella (Caricaceae). Ernstia 11: 75–76.

  • Scheldeman, X. (2002). Distribution and potential of cherimoya (

  • 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.

  • Tineo D, Bustamante DE, Calderon MS, Mendoza JE, Huaman E, Oliva M (2020) An integrative approach reveals five new species of highland papayas (Caricaceae, Vasconcellea) from northern Peru. PLoS ONE 15(12): e0242469. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0242469 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7728213/

  • Xavier Cornejo and José Flores Cedeño (2024) Vasconcellea jossei (Caricaceae): A new species of highland papaya with edible fruits from the Andes of Ecuador. Harvard Papers in Botany, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2024, pp. 59–62.