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Capparis zeylanica
Capparis zeylanica
- Botanic Family
- Capparaceae
- Author
- Linnaeus
Common Names
- Kalo Kara (India)
- Niu yan jing (Pinyin)
- Mai-nam-lawt (Myanmar)
- Mani-thanl-yet (Myanmar)
- Dok lêp meo
- Nahmanitanget or Nahmanithanjet or Nwamanithanleyet (Myanmar)
- Govindi or Kadambha (Sanskrit)
- Indu or Tonbai (Tamil)
Geographical Habitats
- Bangladesh
- Cambodia
- Guangdong
- Guangxi
- Hainan - China
- India
- Java
- Lesser Sunda Islands
- Sulawesi - Indonesia
- Laos
- Myanmar
- Nepal
- Philippines
- Sri Lanka
- Thailand
- Timor Leste
- Vietnam
Natural Habitats
- Wasteland
- hedges
- thickets
- forest margins
- grassland
- forest
- shrubland
- savannah
Flowering Times
- Feb-Apr (China
- India)
- Nov-Apr (India)
- Apr-May (Laos)
- All year (Malesia)
Fruiting Times
- Aug onwards (China)
- All Year (Malesia)
Tall woody armed rambling shrub, scandent to 10m or trailing large spiny shrub with glabrescent zigzag branchlets and angular stems, recurved thorns to 6mm long. Mucronate leaves glabrescent above, velvety beneath to 180mm x 90mm. Axillary inflorescences to 6 flowers, white sometimes yellowish white flowers aging pink to 50mm diameter with long purple stamens, velvety sepals, outer sepals to 11mm x 9mm, inner ones to 10mm x 7mm, 4 villous petals to 16mm x 5mm. Coriaceous-woody oblong capsule orange or red to purplish red 50mm x 40mm.
Further References
- FOC
- The Plant List 2
- J.S Gamble
- BF
- USNH
- Botanicus
- F Indochine
- Flora Malesiana
- Wiart 2