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Capparis fascicularis

Botanic Family

Capparaceae

Author

de Candolle

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Botswana
• Burkina Faso
• Burundi
• Cameroon
• Chad
• Congo
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Gambia
• Ghana
• Kenya
• Mali
• Mozambique
• Niger
• Nigeria
• Rwanda
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• Cape Provinces
• Natal
• Northern Provinces - South Africa
• Sudan
• Swaziland
• Tanzania
• Uganda
• Zaire
• Zambia
• Zimbabwe

Natural Habitats

• Coastal

Flowering Times

• Sep

Fruiting Times

Scandent shrub to 10m with hooked spines. Mucronulate glabrescent leaves 40mm x 20mm. Axillary racemes or fascicles of white or cream flowers, calyx with reddish hairs, sepals 4mm long, petals 7mm long. Reddish fruit to 17mm diameter.

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• FOTA
• F Som