Taxon: Vasconcellea pubescens A. DC.

Common names:

• mountain papaya   (Source: Dict Rehm [as Carica pubescens]) – English
  
• papayer de montagne   (Source: Dict Rehm [as Carica pubescens]) – French
  
• Bergpapaya   (Source: Dict Rehm [as Carica pubescens]) – German
  
• chamburú   (Source: Names Soukup [as Carica pubescens]) – Spanish
  
• chamburo   (Source: Lost Crops Incas [as Carica pubescens]) – Spanish
  
• chiluacán   (Source: Names Soukup [as Carica pubescens]) – Spanish
  
• papaya de tierra fría   (Source: Dict Rehm [as Carica pubescens]) – Spanish
  

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)
  
• Gene sources: potential for cold tolerance in papaya   (fide Euphytica 143:162. 2005)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of papaya   (based on sterile hybrids with Carica papaya fide Acta Hort 859:361. 2010)
  

Distributional range:

• 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

• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Southern South America: Chile

References:

• Badillo, V. M. 1971. Monografia de la familia Caricaceae. [= 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].
• Carrasco, B. et al. 2009. Genetic structure of the highland papayas (Vasconcellea pubescens (Lenné et C. Koch) Badillo) cultivated along a geographic gradient in Chile as revealed by Inter Simple Sequence Repeats (ISSR). Genet. Resources Crop Evol. 56:331–337.
• Carvalho, F. A. & S. S. Renner. 2012. A dated phylogeny of the papaya family (Caricaceae) reveals the crop's closest relatives and the family's biogeographic history. Molec. Phylogenet. Evol. 65:46–53. [= Vasconcella cundinamarcensis].
• Harling, G. & B. Sparre, eds. 1973–. Flora of 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. [= C. pubescens Lenné & Koch].
• O'Brien, C. M. & R. A. Drew. 2010. Marker-assisted hybridisation and backcrossing between Vasconcellea species and Carica papaya for PRSV-P resistance. Acta Hort. 859:361–368.
• Ochoa, J. et al. 2003. Interacciones entre Fusarium oxysporum y Meloidogyne incognita causantes de marchitez vascular en papayas de altura. Fitopatología 38:170–175. [as Carica pubescens, a parental species of "Carica heilbornii" (= Vasconcellea × heilbornii)].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. [= Carica pubescens].
• Scheldeman, X. et al. 2007. Distribution, diversity and environmental adaptation of highland papayas (Vasconcellea spp.) in tropical and subtropical America. Biodivers. & Conservation 16:1867–1884. [= V. cundinamarcensis locally marketed from Colombia to Peru & introduced in Chile, where preserves are exported to Europe].
• Siar, S. V. et al. 2012. Gene for PRSV-P resistance in Vasconcellea species and development of PRSV-P resistant papaya via intergeneric hybridisation. Acta Hort. 929:335–341.
• Soukup, J. 1970. Vocabulario de los nombres vulgares de la flora peruana. [= Carica pubescens].
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. [= Carica candamarcensis & Carica cestriflora].
• Van Droogenbroeck, B. et al. 2005. Maternal inheritance of cytoplasmic organelles in intergeneric hybrids of Carica papaya L. and Vasconcellea spp. (Caricaceae Dumort., Brassicales). Euphytica 143:161–168. [= Vasconcella cundinamarcensis].
• Vietmeyer, N. D., ed. 1989. Lost crops of the Incas. [= Carica pubescens].

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Synonyms:

• (=) Carica candamarcensis Hook. f.
  (previously associated with 22 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 web resources for Vasconcellea pubescens A. DC.:

• Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

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