• 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 grandiflora Wall. ex Hook.f. & Thomson
• Vernacular name : Dudupi (Telugu)
• Habit : Shrub (Straggling)
• Habitat : Hilly forests and plains
• Flower, Fruit : March-April
• Collector(s) Name : C.J.Saldanha
• Collection Nos : CJS 16486, KFP 2515, KFP 2553
• Collection Locality : Road to Handerangi (Hassan)
• Distribution :
  • Maharashtra : Beed district, Osmanabad district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tiruchirapalli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Southwest India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Flora of Hassan district, Karnataka; Flora of Karnataka, Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; N.P.Singh, 1988- Flora of Eastern Karnataka; Naidu, M.T. & O.A. Kumar 2015. Tree species diversity in the Eastern Ghats of Northern Andhra Pradesh, India. JoTT 7 (8): 7443-7459; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1; 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 grandiflora. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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