CHR 498933 – Carica papaya L.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 498933
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 4248/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
15 Jul 1993
Start date:
1993-07-15
Country:
Cook Islands
Land District:
Penrhyn
Notes:
Small, soft wooded tree with simple, stout trunk bearing prominent leaf scars. Leaves mainly in a large terminal crown, the lamina ± glaucescent beneath. Peduncles very short and stout. Flowers and fruit details from different trees which appeared identical vegetatively. Calyx lobes 2-3 mm long. Petals white, 6-6.5 x 1-1.3 cm, ± oblong but upper half c. 3 mm narrower, also upper half reflexing. Ovary greenish-white. Stigmas 1.3-1.5 cm across the 3, strongly fimbriate. Fruit to 16 x 10 cm, ± obovoid, orange skin and inside, with 5 slight rounded ridges; flesh very sweet. Seed black. Commonly cultivated. A typical female tree.
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Country:
Unknown
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