• 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 moonii Wight
• Vernacular name : Luthikai (Kannada); Large Caper (Malayalam)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Evergreen forests, in sacred groves and plains
• Flower, Fruit : December-October
• Collection Nos : R.S.Raghavan 79408, Nana 5524, CJS 11014, CS 2169
• Distribution :
  • Kerala : Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Idukki district, Alappuzha district, Kollam district
  • Maharashtra : Mumbai Suburban district, Kolhapur district, Pune district, Ratnagiri district, Satara district, Sindhudurg district, Raigad district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, The Nilgiri district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : Southwest India, Sri Lanka
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Flora of Karnataka, Flora of Karnataka, Saldanha, 1984; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Flora of Coorg district, Karnataka state; 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; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
• 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 moonii. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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