Capparaceae
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Gordon C. Tucker in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Shrubs or trees (deciduous or evergreen); spines absent (usually without thorns except Atamisquea); glabrous or puberulent with stellate trichomes or lepidote scales (producing glucosinolates). Stems erect or spreading; sparsely to profusely branched. Leaves alternate and distichous or spirally arranged, simple [palmately compound]; venation pinnate; stipules caducous, scalelike or absent; petioles present (pulvinus absent, nectaries present or absent, [petiolar spines present]); blade margins entire. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, usually racemose, sometimes corymbose or flowers solitary; pedunculate; bud scales usually persistent; bracts absent. Pedicels present. Flowers bisexual (sometimes appearing unisexual), actinomorphic or slightly zygomorphic, rotate to crateriform, campanulate, or urceolate; perianth and androecium hypogynous; sepals usually persistent (deciduous in Quadrella incana), 4, distinct; petals 4, attached directly to receptacle, imbricate, distinct, equal; intrastaminal nectary-discs or glands present or absent; stamens 6-250; filaments distinct, glabrous or pubescent; anthers dehiscing by longitudinal slits, pollen shed in single grains, binucleate, commonly tricolporate; pistil 1; ovary 1-carpellate, 2-locular; placentation parietal; ovules anatropous, bitegmic; style 1, (straight, relatively short and thick); stigma 1, capitate, unlobed. Fruits capsules or berries, valvate, elongate, dehiscent or not by 2 lateral valves (stipitate from elongation of gynophore). Seeds 1-38 or many, usually tan to yellowish brown or brown, sometimes green; arillate or not; endosperm scanty or absent, sometimes a persistent perisperm present; cotyledons incumbent to accumbent, (radicle-hypocotyl relatively short and conical). x = 8, 10.
Species within checklist: Rio de Flag || << 51 - 100 taxa >>
Capparis decidua
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Capparis detonsa
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Capparis dolichopoda
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Capparis erythrocarpos
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Capparis fascicularis
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Capparis ferruginea
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Capparis flavicans
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Capparis flexuosa
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Capparis floribunda
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Capparis frondosa
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Capparis grandipetala
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Capparis hainanensis
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Capparis hastata
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Capparis heydeana
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Capparis horrida
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Capparis incana
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Capparis indica
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Capparis lanceolaris
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Capparis lasiantha
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Capparis linearis
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Capparis lineata
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Capparis lobbiana
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Capparis lundellii
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Capparis maroniensis
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Capparis membranifolia
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Capparis micracantha
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Capparis micrantha
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Capparis mitchellii
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Capparis muco
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Capparis mucronata
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Capparis nectaria
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Capparis nobilis
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Capparis orientalis
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Capparis pachaca
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Capparis palmeri
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Capparis panamensis
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Capparis pittieri
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Capparis portoricensis
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Capparis pringlei
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Capparis pubiflora
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Capparis quiniflora
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Capparis quiriguensis
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Capparis retusa
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Capparis sabiifolia
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Capparis salicifolia
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Capparis sandwichiana
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Capparis sepiaria
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Capparis speciosa
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Capparis spinosa
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Capparis tenuisiliqua
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