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Capparaceae

Capparaceae
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ASU Fruit & Seed Collection
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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: NAU-BIO414-Exam3 || << 1 - 50 taxa >>
Acanthocapparis yunckeri
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Atamisquea emarginata
Media resource of Atamisquea emarginata
Bachmannia woodii
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Belencita nemorosa
Media resource of Belencita nemorosa
Boscia albitrunca
Media resource of Boscia albitrunca
Boscia angustifolia
Media resource of Boscia angustifolia
Boscia cauliflora
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not available
Boscia coriacea
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not available
Boscia fadeniorum
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not available
Boscia foetida
Media resource of Boscia foetida
Boscia gossweileri
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not available
Boscia keniensis
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not available
Boscia longifolia
Media resource of Boscia longifolia
Boscia matabelensis
Media resource of Boscia matabelensis
Boscia mazzocchii
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Boscia microphylla
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not available
Boscia minimifolia
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not available
Boscia mossambicensis
Media resource of Boscia mossambicensis
Boscia oleoides
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not available
Boscia pestalozziana
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not available
Boscia polyantha
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not available
Boscia praecox
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not available
Boscia pruinosa
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Boscia rotundifolia
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not available
Boscia salicifolia
Media resource of Boscia salicifolia
Boscia senegalensis
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not available
Boscia urens
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not available
Boscia welwitschii
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not available
Buchholzia coriacea
Media resource of Buchholzia coriacea
Buchholzia tholloniana
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not available
Cadaba aphylla
Media resource of Cadaba aphylla
Cadaba baccarinii
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not available
Cadaba barbigera
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not available
Cadaba benguellensis
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not available
Cadaba carneoviridis
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not available
Cadaba divaricata
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not available
Cadaba farinosa
Media resource of Cadaba farinosa
Cadaba fruticosa
Media resource of Cadaba fruticosa
Cadaba gillettii
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Cadaba glaberrima
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not available
Cadaba glandulosa
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Cadaba heterotricha
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not available
Cadaba kassasii
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Cadaba kirkii
Media resource of Cadaba kirkii
Cadaba linearifolia
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not available
Cadaba longifolia
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Cadaba mirabilis
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Cadaba natalensis
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Cadaba parvula
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Cadaba rotundifolia
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