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Capparis puberula

A pubescent, tomentose or sometimes glabrous shrub; the branches usually armed with recurved, stipular spines. Leaves elliptical or ovate-elliptical or ovate-oblong, obtuse or subacute, pubescent or glabrous or pubescent-scabrid above, 1–3 in. long, 3/4–1 1/2 in. broad; petioles 2–5 lines. Flowers either axillary and solitary or collected into terminal corymbs or racemes, the lower usually in the axils of leaves, the upper with linear bracts. Sepals subequal, rotundate, concave, more or less tomentose externally, sometimes glabrescent. Petals exceeding the sepals. Stamens indefinite. Ovary ovoid, usually glabrous, very shortly or scarcely pointed; stigma sessile or subsessile, much narrower than the ovary; gynophore 1–1 1/2 in. long. Fruit not seen.