CHR 498924 A – Carica papaya L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 498924 A
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
23 January 1995
Database record updated:
18 August 2016
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Carica papaya L.
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1993-07-15 (Verbatim: 15 Jul 1993)
Preferred name:
Carica papaya L.
Division:
Spermatophyta
Class:
Magnoliopsida
Order:
Violales
Family:
Caricaceae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Cook Islands, Penrhyn, Omoka Village
Verbatim locality:
Omoka Village.
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4239/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
15 Jul 1993
Start date:
1993-07-15
Country:
Cook Islands
Land District:
Penrhyn
Habitat:
Cultivated.
Notes:
Small tree c. 3 m high with simple, stout, soft-wooded trunk. Leaves forming a large terminal crown; lamina ± glaucescent beneath. Flowers on long downwards curving "peduncles" and short lateral branched peduncles. Corolla white; tube 2-2.2 cm long, slender and widening slightly towards apex; lobes 1.4-1.5 cm x c. 5 mm, ± oblong-elliptic, curled and twisted somewhat like a propeller blade. Stamens with short densely hairy filament and anthers c. 2 mm long, exserted. Flowers, fragrant. Male tree. A typical male ninita (paw paw).
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Country:
Unknown
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to B
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