Carica papaya
Carica papaya est planta florens et fructifera familiae Caricacearum, in America Media endemica. Fructus Latinitate communi papaia appellatur. Caricae papayae substantia papainum defensionis insunt.

Bibliographia 
 Fontes antiquiores
 
  vol. 1 p. 145, tab. 50-51 ("papaja mas et femina"); cf.  p. 378

 Eruditio recentior
 Fernanda Antunes Carvalho, Susanne S. Renner, "A dated phylogeny of the papaya family (Caricaceae) reveals the crop’s closest relatives and the family’s biogeographic history" in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution vol. 65 (2012) pp. 46–53
 Sophie D. Coe, America's First Cuisines (Austinopoli: University of Texas Press, 1994) p. 165
 Gabriela Fuentes, Jorge M. Santamaría, "Papaya (Carica papaya L.): Origin, Domestication, and Production" in R. Ming, P. H. Moore, edd., Genetics and Genomics of Papaya (Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models vol. 10. Novi Eboraci: Springer, 2014) pp. 3–15
 Karl J. Niklas, Thomas E. Marler, "Carica papaya (Caricaceae): a case study into the effects of domestication on plant vegetative growth and reproduction" in American Journal of Botany vol. 94 (2007) pp. 999–1002
 Robert VanBuren et al., "Origin and domestication of papaya Yh chromosome" in Genome Research vol. 25 (2015) pp. 524–533

Notae

Nexus externi 

 Diana Yates, "Cultivated papaya owes a lot to the ancient Maya, research suggests" (2015) apud Illinois News Bureau

Caricaceae
Fructus
Fruges Americae mediae
Plantae medicinales
Species plantarum
Taxa Linnaei
Taxa 1753
Coagula