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Capparis sepiaria var. fischeri

Botanic Family

Capparaceae

Author

(Pax) Linnaeus

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cameroon
• Chad
• Eritrea
• Ethiopia
• Gambia
• Guinea
• Guinea Bissau
• Ivory Coast
• Kenya
• Mali
• Mauritania
• Niger
• N. Nigeria
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Somalia
• Sudan
• Tanzania

Natural Habitats

• Savanna

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Scrambling prickly shrub or liane. Coriaceous leaves puberulous beneath 50mm x 12mm, recurved spines 2mm long. Terminal corymbs of 5-8 flowers, flowers to 8mm long. Yellow-orange fruit 3mm long.

Medicinal uses, leaf & fruit edible

Further References

• Jstor
• The Plant List 2
• FOTA
• BJS