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Vasconcellea stipulata (V.M.Badillo) V.M.Badillo

Caricaceae · Ecuador, Peru

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Summary

Vasconcellea stipulata, known also as toronche or jigacho, is a fruit-bearing species in the Vasconcellea genus, Caricaceae family. It is native to Ecuador and Peru.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Vasconcellea stipulata", CC BY-SA 4.0.

About the genus · Vasconcellea

Vasconcellea is a genus with 26 species of flowering plants in the family Caricaceae. Most were formerly treated in the genus Carica, but have been split out on genetic evidence. The genus name has also been incorrectly spelled "Vasconcella".

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Vasconcellea", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 15 of the 16 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeEcuador, Peru · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker-4.294, -79.215 · in the densest population, 13 records (81% of those in range)
Kew's description“tree” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 16 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 5 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 324 km away. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 15 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 16 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: Paúl Gonzáles, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (6).

Other Vasconcellea 9 in the reference

Vasconcellea candicans Vasconcellea candicans Mountain papaya Photo: CC BY, Staci OréVasconcellea cauliflora Vasconcellea cauliflora Caricaceae Photo: CC BY, Neptalí Ramírez MarcialVasconcellea chilensis Vasconcellea chilensis Austral papaya Photo: CC BY, Gabriela CartesVasconcellea goudotiana Vasconcellea goudotiana Highland papaya Photo: CC BY, John OcampoVasconcellea monoica Vasconcellea monoica Caricaceae Photo: CC BY, Frank DietzeVasconcellea parviflora Vasconcellea parviflora Caricaceae Photo: CC BY, Raúl A. Ruiz M. Vasconcellea × pentagona Caricaceae Vasconcellea pubescens Vasconcellea pubescens Mountain papaya Photo: CC BY, Nicolás Baresch UribeVasconcellea quercifolia Vasconcellea quercifolia Oak-leaf pawpaw Photo: CC0, Luis Capeletti

Names & registers

Also known as Carica stipulata. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Caricaceae
Described by
(V.M.Badillo) V.M.Badillo
Native to
Ecuador, Peru
Wild records
16 in range · 5 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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