Linnaeus, C. (1 May 1753), Species Plantarum 2: 1036 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 458 [secondary reference]

Linnaeus, C. (1754), Genera Plantarum Edn. 5: 192 [secondary reference]

• Type: Carica papaya L.

Bailey, F.M. in Meston, A. (ed.) (1889), Botany of the Bellenden-Ker Expedition. Report of the Government Scientific Expedition to the Bellenden-Ker Range upon the Flora and Fauna of that part of the Colony: 43 [secondary reference]

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 220 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 416, 417 [secondary reference]

Du Puy, D.J. & Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Caricaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 163 APC [secondary reference]

• APC Dist.: CoI (naturalised), ChI (naturalised), NT (naturalised), Qld (naturalised), NI (doubtfully naturalised)

Kubitzki, K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (2002), Caricaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 5: 60 [secondary reference]

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 152 [secondary reference]

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