• 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 roxburghii DC.
• Vernacular name : Handiphuta (Oria)
• Habit : Liana
• Habitat : Along rocky slopes of dry deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : Rare in deciduous forests up to 600m
• Flower, Fruit : March-October
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Chitvel RF (Kadapa district)
  • Kerala : Idukki district
  • Odisha : Ganjam district (Ganjam district), Bruni Hills (Khurda district), Chilika
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Madurai district, The Nilgiri district, Ramanathapuram district, Tirunelveli district
• World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
• 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; 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 roxburghii. Downloaded on 21 November 2024.

Botanical Description