• 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 tomentosa Lam.
• Habit : Climbing shrub
• Habitat : Sacred groves and scrub jungles of the plains
• Comments / notes : Common
• Flower, Fruit : January-October
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Loyapalli, Guntur district (Guntur district), Palakonda Hills (Kadapa district)
  • Karnataka : Bengaluru district, Kalaburagi (Gulbarga) district, Hassan district, Mysuru district, Tumakuru district
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Ernakulam district, Alappuzha district
  • Odisha : Puri district
• World Distribution : India, Andamans (India), Sri Lanka, Myanmar extending to Southeast Asia
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1994- Flora of Orissa Vol. 1; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Udupi;
• 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 floribunda. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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