Capparis
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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Capparis

caper
falseteeth
linguam

Hierarchical position of the Genus Capparis

   Regnum  Plantae
common name: The plant kingdom
  
   Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist
syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta
pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: angiosperms, flowering plants
  
   Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal
pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996.
common name: Angiosperms
  
   Classis  Rosopsida Batsch
pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.
  
   Subclassis  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt.
pub. 1993
  
   SuperOrdo  Capparanae Reveal
pub. Phytologia 76: 3. 1994.
  
   Ordo  Capparales Hutch.
pub. Bull. Misc. Inform. 1924: 122. 29 Mai 1924.
  
   Subordo  Capparineae Engl.
pub. Syllabus, ed. 2: 121. Mai 1898.
  
   Familia  Capparaceae Juss.
pub. Gen. Pl.: 242. 4 Aug 1789.
common name: Capers
  
   Subfamilia  Capparoideae Burnett
pub. Outl. Bot.: 867. Jun 1835.
  
   Tribus  Cappareae DC.
pub. Prodr. 1: 242. mid Jan 1824.
  
   Genus  Capparis L.
pub. (1753)
common name: caper
  

Named members of the Genus Capparis

1
   Species  amplissima Lam.
common name: burro blanco  (Mexico)
2
   Species  atamisquea Kuntze, non Capparis emarginata A. Rich.
3
   Species  baducca L.
common name: caper
4
   Species  coccolobifolia Mart. ex Eichl.
syn. Capparis hastata
5
   Species  corymbosa Lam.
common name: corymbose caper
6
   Species  cynophallophora L.
common name: Jamaican caper
  
7
   Species  flexuosa (L.) L.
common name: falseteeth
8
   Species  frondosa Jacq.
syn. Capparis baducca
9
   Species  hastata Jacq.
common name: broadleaf caper
10
   Species  incana Kunth
common name: hoary caper
11
   Species  indica (L.) Druce
common name: linguam
12
   Species  portoricensis Urban
syn. Capparis amplissima
13
   Species  rupestris Sibth. & Smith
syn. Capparis spinosa
14
   Species  sandwichiana DC.
 
15
   Varietas  zoharyi O.& I. Deg.
syn. Capparis sandwichiana
16
   Species  spinosa L.
common name: caper
  

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

 

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.

 

Last reviewed October 31, 2004   

 

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