Capparis L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1964, Flora Europaea - Volume 1. Lycopodiaceae to Platanaceae, Cambridge University Press : 259

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scientific name

Capparis L.
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1. Capparis L. 3

Shrubs with simple leaves, and usually with stipular spines.

Flowers solitary, showy, zygomorphic; sepals 4, white or pink;

stamens numerous. Fruit a berry borne on a long gynophore.

Literature: M. Zohary, Bull. Res. Counc. Israel 8 d: 49-64 (1960). Leaves orbicular or orbicular-ovate; midrib ending in a scarcely visible mucro 1. spinosa Leaves oblong to elliptical or ovate; midrib prolonged into a distinct projecting mucro 2. ovata

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