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Capparis sepiaria

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Identification
Capparis sepiaria L. [family CAPPARACEAE ]
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Flora

Entry for CAPPARIS sepiaria L. [family CAPPARACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Somalia
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora Somalia, Vol 1, (1993) Author: by S. Fici (Boscia, Cadaba, Capparis), M. Thulin & L. E. Kers (Cleome, Maerua), and M. Thulin (Dipterygium, Puccionia, Thilachium) [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
Names
CAPPARIS sepiaria L. [family CAPPARACEAE], (1762).
Information
Shrub with scrambling or climbing branches up to 5–7 m long; young twigs glabrous to minutely appressed-pubescent. Leaf-blades elliptic, ovate or obovate, 1–6.8 x 0.8–4.4 cm, apically rounded, obtuse or retuse, mucronulate, basally rounded or subcordate; petiole 2–5 mm long, pubescent or glabrescent. Flowers in racemes or scattered in upper leaf axils; pedicels 5–20 mm long, pubescent or glabrescent. Sepals 4–8 mm long, glabrous outside, puberulous or glabrescent within. Petals oblong, up to 8–9 mm long, glabrous or basally puberulous. Stamens many, 8–13 mm long. Gynophore up to 1.5 cm long; ovary ovoid, c. 2 mm long, with sessile stigma. Fruit globose, up to more than 1 cm in diam., usually reddish.

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