|authority = [[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck|Lam.लामार्क]]<ref name=lam>Under its accepted name ''Artocarpus heterophyllus'' (then as ''heterophylla'') this species was described in ''Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique'' 3: 209. (1789) by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, from a specimen collected by botanist [[Philibert Commerson]]. Lamarck said of the fruit that it was coarse and difficult to digest. {{cite book |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/721644#page/216/mode/1up |title=Larmarck's original description of ''tejas'' |volume=t.3 |quote=On mange la chair de son fruit, ainsi que les noyaux qu'il contient; mais c'est un aliment grossier et difficile à digérer. |access-date=2012-11-23|publisher=Panckoucke;Plomteux }}</ref><ref name=trop1>{{cite web |url=http://legacy.tropicos.org/Name/21300871 |title=Name - !''Artocarpus heterophyllus'' Lam |website=Tropicos |location=Saint Louis, Missouri |publisher=[[Missouri Botanical Garden]] |access-date=2012-11-23}}</ref>
