• Family : CAPPARACEAE
  (Caper Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KARIL FAMILY (करील फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CAPPARACEAE
• Synonym(s) : Capparis heyneana Wall. ex Wight & Arn.; Capparis baducca L.
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Capparis baducca L.
• Vernacular name : Kakkamullu (Malayalam); Chavruka (Marathi)
• Habit : Shrub
• Habitat : Semi-Evergreen forests
• Comments / notes : Rare, along the margins of the evergreen and semi-evergreen forests from Goa to Kanyakumari; elevation 150-800 m.
• Flower, Fruit : February-June
• Collection Nos : Bell 6044, R.S.Raghavan 80749, R.S.Raghavan 79407
• Distribution :
  • Goa : South Goa district, North Goa district
  • Karnataka : Dakshina Kannada district, Dharwad district, Shivamogga district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : Kasaragod district, Kannur district, Wayanad district, Palakkad district, Thrissur district, Kollam district, Thiruvananthapuram district
  • Maharashtra : Ghats of Konkan
  • Tamil Nadu : Tirunelveli district
• Endemism : Western Ghats
• Conservation Status : Near Threatened (NT)
• Literature : Navendu Page (2017). Endemic woody plants of the Western Ghats; Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI; 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; Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnatka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi.
• 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 rheedei. Downloaded on 3 June 2024.

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