• Family : CAPPARACEAE
  (Caper Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : KARIL FAMILY (करील फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : CAPPARACEAE
• Basionym : Capparis apetala (Roth)
• Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Maerua apetala (Sperng.) M.Jacobs
• Vernacular name : Iruvalli (Tamil)
• Habit : Tree
• Comments / notes : Rare in dry deciduous forests.
• Flower, Fruit : April-July
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : All hills of Andhra Pradesh
  • Tamil Nadu : Alagar Hills (Madurai district), Dharmapuri Hills (Dharmapuri district), Kanyakumari district, Madurai district, Ramanathapuram district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tirunelveli district
• Native : India
• Endemism : Peninsular India
• World Distribution : India
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature : Pullaiah et al., 2002 - Flora of Eastern Ghats Vol. 1; J.L.Ellis, 1987- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 1; Franklin Benjamin & G.V.S.Murthy, 2013. Flora of Sri Venkateswara National Park, Andhra Pradesh, BSI; 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=Maerua apetala. Downloaded on 3 April 2025.

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