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Capparaceae
Caper Family
By: George
Rogers
According
to LON, a small family of some 40 genera and 45 species of often xeriphytic
herbs to trees, having bisexual round flowers featuring an elongate central
axis, this either separating the pistil from the rest of the flower, or elongate
between the petals and the stamens. Sepals and petals 4; stamens often
numerous, and often on long filaments protruding from the flowers. This is the
family of the spice caper, of the garden Spider-Flower or Cleome, of the
wildflower Clammyweed (Polanisia tenuifolia Torr. & Gray), also of the
landscaping shrub Jamaica Caper. The continued recognition of the traditional
Capparaceae is questionable, modern botanists tending to merge it into the
Brassicaceae.
Plants listed in the manual include:
Capparis
cynophallophora |
