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| Authority - Dum. | Total Number of genera - 5 |
| Gymnosperm or Angiosperm? - Angiosperm | Total Number of species - 55 |
| Plant forms - Tree/Shrub/Herb | |
| World Distribution - Sub-tropical and tropical. Tropical Central & South America (mainly) and West Africa Now reassigned under Brassicales. | |
| Comments - Small, soft-stemmed, palmlike trees, or shrubs, or herbs. Genera include: Carica - one species Carica papaya (Papaya), Americas Cylicomorpha - two species, Africa Jacaratia - five species, Americas Jarilla - three species, Americas Vasconcellea - 20 species, Americas | |
| 1 - Carica. 2 - Jacaratia. |