Taxon: Vasconcellea pubescens A. DC.

Common names:

• Bergpapaya   (Source: Dict Rehm as Carica pubescens)
  
• chamburú   (Source: Names Soukup as Carica pubescens)
  
• chamburo   (Source: Lost Crops of Incas as Carica pubescens)
  
• Chiluacán   (Source: Names Soukup as Carica pubescens)
  
• mountain papaya   (Source: Dict Rehm as Carica pubescens)
  
• papaya de tierra fría   (Source: Dict Rehm as Carica pubescens)
  
• papayer de montagne   (Source: Dict Rehm as Carica pubescens)
  

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide Dict Econ Pl, as Carica candamarcensis & Carica cestriflora)
  
• Gene sources: disease resistance for papaya   (fide Pl Res SEAs 2:112. 1991, as Carica pubescens)
  

Distributional range:

Native:

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Panama
  Northern South America: Venezuela
  Western South America: Bolivia; Colombia; Ecuador - Azuay, Canar, Carchi, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi, El Oro, Imbabura, Loja, Napo, Pichincha, Tungurahua; Peru - Cuzco, Huanuco, Junin

References:

• Badillo, V. M. 1971. Monografia de la familia Caricaceae. (Monog Caricaceae) 105–111. [= C. pubescens Lenné & Koch].
• Badillo, V. M. 1997. Neotypificatión de Carica pubescens Lenné et Koch y de Carica quercifolia (St. Hil.) Hieron. y nuevos registros de la familia para Ecuador. Ernstia 6:201. [= C. pubescens Lenné & Koch].
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of Ecuador. (F Ecuador) [= C. pubescens (A. DC.) Solms].
• Jørgensen, P. M. & S. León-Yánez, eds. 1999. Catalogue of the vascular plants of Ecuador. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 75. (L Ecuador) [= C. pubescens Lenné & Koch].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm) [= Carica pubescens].
• Scheldeman, X. et al. 2007. Distribution, diversity and environmental adaptation of highland papayas (Vasconcellea spp.) in tropical and subtropical America. Biodivers. & Conserv. 16:1867–1884. [= V. cundinamarcensis locally marketed from Colombia to Peru & introduced in Chile, where preserves are exported to Europe].
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. (Names Soukup) [= Carica pubescens].
• Vietmeyer, N. D., ed. 1989. Lost crops of the Incas (Crops Incas) [= Carica pubescens].

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Synonyms:

• (=) Carica candamarcensis Hook. f.
  (previously associated with 21 accessions)
• (=) Carica cestriflora (A. DC.) Solms
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Carica cundinamarcensis Linden, nom. nud.
  
• (=) Carica pubescens Lenné & Koch
  (previously associated with 21 accessions)
• (=) Vasconcellea cestriflora A. DC.
  
• (=) Vasconcellea cundinamarcensis V. M. Badillo
  (previously associated with 21 accessions)

Check other databases for Vasconcellea pubescens A. DC.:

• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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