Carica sprucei

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Overview

Near Threatened

Interesting Facts

Description

Family Caricaceae

Trees small, palmlike, or shrubs , rarely vines , often prickly, monoecious, dioecious, andromonoecious, gynomonoecious , or polygamomonoecious. Stem stout, unbranched, rarely branched, with a terminal cluster of leaves, with flowing, latexlike exudate . Leaves alternate, long petiolate , usually estipulate, large; stipules when present, spiny ; leaf blade palmate or palmatifid , rarely entire or pinnatifid . Inflorescences axillary ; male flowers aggregated in cymose panicles; female flowers usually solitary or aggregated in corymbose cymes, large. Calyx 5-lobed; lobes small, connate basally. Corolla 5-lobed; tube long in male flowers, short in female flowers. Stamens 5 or 10, 1- or 2-whorled, inserted in throat of corolla tube; filaments free , connate basally; anthers introrse , tetrasporangiate , dehiscing via longitudinal slits. Gynoecium in male flowers vestigial, or absent; in female flowers syncarpous , synovarious to synstylovarious; ovary superior, 1- or 5-loculed, placentation when 1-loculed parietal (placentas ± deeply intruded) or laminar-dispersed, when 5-loculed axile ; ovules numerous , anatropous , bitegmic; styles 1 or 5, free to partly joined, apical; stigmas 5, papillate , dry. Fruit large, fleshy , indehiscent berry. Seeds numerous, surrounded by mucilage; endosperm oily; embryo well differentiated; cotyledons 2, broad, flat. n = 9.

Six genera and 34 species: Central and South America, one genus of two species (Cylicomorpha Urban) in tropical Africa, one genus (Carica) widely introduced and cultivated in tropical areas of the world, including China.[1]

Genus Carica

Trees small, or shrubs . Leaves subpeltate; leaf blade palmatifid , rarely entire. Flowers unisexual or bisexual . Male flowers: corolla lobes oblong or linear , valvate or contorted; stamens 10, filaments short; sterile ovary subulate . Female flowers: corolla lobes linear-oblong; stamens absent; ovary estipitate, 1-loculed; ovules several to numerous , placentation parietal ; stigmas 5, inflated or linear. Fruit large, succulent. Seeds numerous, ovoid or slightly compressed , arillate ; embryo compressed; cotyledons long elliptic .

One species: of cultivated origin in Central America, unknown in the wild; widely introduced and cultivated in tropical areas of the world, including China.[2]

Habitat

Ecology: Low and high Andean forest (1,500–3,500 m ).[3].

List of Habitats :

•     1     Forest   
  
•     1.9     Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane   
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Taxonomy

Synonyms

Vasconcellea Sprucei

Notes

Publishing author : Badillo Publication : in Rev. Fac. Agron. Univ. Venez., Maracay, iv . No. 2, 80 (1967).

Similar Species

Members of the genus Carica

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 16 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. candicans (Mito) · C. cauliflora (Mountain Pawpaw) · C. mexicana (Coahuayote) · C. monoica (Carica) · C. omnilingua (Col De Monte) · C. palandensis (Papaillo) · C. papaya (Papaya) · C. papaya var. Tropical Dwarf Papaya (Papaya) · C. papaya 'Formosa' (Papaya) · C. papaya'Tropical Dwarf Papaya' (Tropical Dwarf Papaya) · C. pentagona (Babaco) · C. pubescens (Mountain Papaya) · C. pulchra (Col De Monte) · C. quercifolia (Oak-Leaved Papaya) · C. × heilbornii (Hybrid Babaco) · C. x heilbornii (Babaco)

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Further Reading

• Badillo, V.M. 1971. Monografía de la familia Caricaceae. 1-221. Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay.
• Badillo, V.M. 1971. Monografa de la familia Caricaceae. 1-221. Universidad Central de Venezuela, Maracay.
• Badillo, V.M. 1993. Caricaceae, Segundo Esquema. Revista de la Facultad de Agronoma 43: 1-111.
• IUCN. 2003. 2003 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org. Downloaded on 18 November 2003.
• Valencia, R., Pitman, N., León-Yánez, S. and Jørgensen, P.M. (eds). 2000. Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endmicas del Ecuador 2000. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Ponticicia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito.
• Valencia, R., Pitman, N., Len-Ynez, S. and Jrgensen, P.M. (eds). 2000. Libro Rojo de las Plantas Endmicas del Ecuador 2000. Publicaciones del Herbario QCA, Ponticicia Universidad Catlica del Ecuador, Quito.
• Chen Peishan. 1999. Caricaceae. In: Ku Tsuechih, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 52(1): 121-122.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed March 27, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 28, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Romero-Saltos, H. & Pitman, N. 2003. Carica sprucei. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 28, 2008:

• Missouri Botanical Garden

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5917806
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:150165-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 47506-2
• IUCN ID: 198079
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1027084

Footnotes

1. Yinzheng Wang & Nicholas J. Turland "Caricaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 150. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. "Carica". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 150. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
3. Romero-Saltos, H. & Pitman, N. 2003. Carica sprucei. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]

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