Capparis zeylanica

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• Common Names
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Taxonomy

Notes

Publishing author : Wight & Arn. Publication : Prodr. Fl. Ind. Orient. 1: 25 1834 [10 Oct 1834]

Similar Species

Members of the genus Capparis

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 24 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

C. amplissima (Burro Blanco) · C. baducca (Caper) · C. corymbosa (Corymbose Caper) · C. cynophallophora (Jamaica Caper) · C. decidua (Bare Caper) · C. erythrocarpus (Capparis) · C. flexuosa (Bay-Leaved Caper) · C. flexuosa var. floridanum (Bay-Leaved Caper) · C. flexuosa var. pumila (Bay-Leaved Caper) · C. hastata (Broadleaf Caper) · C. incana (Hoary Caper) · C. indica (Linguam) · C. micracantha (Caper Thorn) · C. montana (French Guiana Caper) · C. moonii (Indian Caper) · C. nobilis (Wild Lime (Aust)) · C. odoratissima (Capparis) · C. pittieri (Tropical American Caper) · C. sandwichiana (Native Caper) · C. sepiaria (Wild Caper-Bush) · C. spinosa (Caper) · C. spinosa var. inermis (Caper) · C. tomentosa (Wooly Caperbush) · C. zeylanica (Indian Caper)

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Further Reading

• A hand-book to the flora of Ceylon: containing descriptions of all the species of flowering plants indigenous to the island, and notes on their history, distribution, and uses: with an atlas of plates illustrating some of the more inte by Henry Trimen. London: Dulau, 1893-1931. url p. 399.
• A handbook of tropical gardening and planting, with special reference to Ceylon, by H. F. Macmillan. .. Colombo, H.W. Cave & co., 1914. url p. 391.
• A manual of Indian timbers; an account of the growth, distribution, and uses of the trees and shrubs of India and Ceylon with descriptions of their wood-structure, by J. S. Gamble... London: S. Low, Marston & co. ltd., 1902. url p. 33.
• A systematic catalogue of the flowering plants and ferns indigenous to or growing wild in Ceylon. Colombo: G. J. A. Skeen, 1885. url .
• Annals of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya. Colombo: Skien; 1901-1924. url , p. 179.
• Bengal plants: a list of the phanerogams, ferns and fern-allies indigenous to, or commonly cultivated in, the Lower provinces and Chittagong, with definitions of the natural orders and genera, and keys to the genera and species. 1 1903 Calcutta: Botanical Survey of India1903. url p. 226.
• Bulletin of miscellaneous information /Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. 1916 London: H.M. Stationery Office, 1900-1941. url p. 62.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45 2003 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 187, p. 427, p. 429, p. 436, p. 505.
• Flora Malesiana. general editor, C.G.G.J. van Steenis. Djakarta: Noordhoff-Kolff, 1950- url p. 72, p. 87.
• Flora of the Presidency of Madras / by J.S. Gamble. London: West, Newman and Adlard, 1915- url p. 45, p. 46.
• Hortus suburbanus Calcuttensis; A catalogue of the plants which have been cultivated in the Hon. East India Company's botanical garden, Calcutta, and in the Serampore botanical garden. By the late J. O. Voigt, printed under the superintendence of W. Griffith. Calcutta, Bishop's College Press, 1845. url p. 74.
• IUCN Directory of South Asian Protected Areas IUCN url p. 199, p. 283.
• Memoirs of the Department of Agriculture in India. Calcutta: Published for the Imperial Dept. of Agriculture in India by Thacker, Spink, 1906-1931. url , p. 32.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 475, p. 483.
• Spixiana. 3 1980 München: Zoologische Staatssammlung München, 1977- url p. 160, p. 162, fig. 4.
• Spolia zeylanica. S.l.: s.n. url , p. 142.
• The Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. Bombay: The Society, url p. 123, p. 473.
• The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 24 1888 London: the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green: ||Williams and Norgate, 1865-1968. url p. 144.
• The flora of British India /By J. D. Hooker assisted by various botanists. Published under the authority of the secretary of state for India in council. London: L. Reeve, 1875-97. url p. 174.
• The flora of British India. London, L. Reeve & Co., 1875-97. url .
• The flora of the presidency of Bombay / By Theodore Cooke. London: Taylor and Francis, 1903-08. url p. 45.
• The forest flora of north-west and central India: a handbook of the indigenous trees and shrubs of those countries. London, W. H. Allen & Co., 1874. url .
• Vernacular list of trees, shrubs, and woody climbers in the Madras Presidency. Madras, Printed by the Superintendant, Government Press, 1915. url p. 315, p. 396, p. 404, p. 641, p. 999.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed March 27, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed December 01, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• The International Plant Names Index. Accessed Dec 27, 2011.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal December 01, 2007:

• Australian National Herbarium
• , Australian National Herbarium
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 5900430
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15327570
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:146891-1
• International Plant Names Index (IPNI) ID: 146890-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 2088468

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