• 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 olacifolia Hook.f. & Thomson
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Deciduous forests. In moist shaded ravines up to 1350m
• Comments / notes : Rare
• Flower, Fruit : March-December
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Vizag hills (Vishakapatnam district)
  • Karnataka : Hassan district
  • Odisha : Kalahandi (Kalhandi district), Mahendragiri Hills (Ganjam district)
  • Tamil Nadu : Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• World Distribution : India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar
• 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; Henry, Kumari & Chithra (1983). Flora of Tamil Nadu, India vol. 1.
• 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 olacifolia. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

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