Herbarium JCB

Capparis divaricata Lam.

Family : CAPPARACEAE
(Caper Family)
Family (Hindi name) : KARIL FAMILY (करील फैमिली)
Family (as per The APG System III) : CAPPARACEAE
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Capparis divaricata Lam.
Vernacular name : Thottala (Kannada); Athandai, Sengathali, Toaratti (Tamil); Badreni (Telugu); Adandamkody (Malayalam); Pachunda (Marathi)
Habit : Tree
Habitat : Dry forests and on black cotton soil
Comments / notes : Occasional in scrub or deciduous forests up to 300m.
Key identification features : Fruit woody, corrugated with an acute apex, red when ripe
Flower, Fruit : March-November
Distribution :
- Andhra Pradesh : Kurnool district, Guntur district, Kadapa district
- Telangana : Khammam district, Mehboobnagar district, Nalgonda district
- Kerala : Kannur district, Idukki district
- Maharashtra : Ahmednagar district, Aurangabad district, Beed district, Kolhapur district, Latur district, Osmanabad district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district
- Tamil Nadu : Kolli Hills (Namakkal district), Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Madurai district, Salem district, Villipuram district, Cuddalore district, Thanjavur district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
Native : India, Sri Lanka
World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; N.P.Singh, 1988. Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India; Matthew, K.M., Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (1). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharashtra vol 1. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India.
Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Raja K Swamy, Deepak Kumar, Arun Singh R. and K. Gopalakrishna Bhat (2019). Flora of Peninsular India. http://peninsula.ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Capparis divaricata. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.