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The genus Papaya is in the family Caricaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Papaya

See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Papaya aurantiaca (Regel) Kuntze	Accepted		TRO

Statistics

The Plant List includes 40 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Papaya. Of these 1 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 2 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Papaya. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 40 species names for the genus Papaya recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1	2.5%
◕	Synonym	36	90.0%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	7.5%

All names

The status of the 42 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Papaya recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	1	2.4%
◕	Synonym	38	90.5%
◕	Unplaced	0	0%
◕	Unassessed	3	7.1%

The confidence with which the status of the 40 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Papaya, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	0	0	0	0	0	0%
	Medium confidence	1	35	0	0	36	90.0%
	Low confidence	0	1	0	3	4	10.0%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Papaya, are as follows: