Taxon: Capparis spinosa L.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Capparis spinosa subsp. rupestris (no accessions)
• Capparis spinosa subsp. spinosa (no accessions)

Common names:

• caper   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• caperbush   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• Flinders-rose   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• shafallah   (Source: Ill L Qatar ) – Arabic
  
• câprier   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• Kapernstrauch   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• alcaparra   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• alcaparro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• kapris   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Food additives: flavoring   (fide F Eur ed2; F Iraq; F USSR)
  
• Environmental: boundary/barrier/support   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (flower bud primary source of common caper fide Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northern Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Arabian Peninsula: Bahrain; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; United Arab Emirates; Yemen
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Cyprus; Egypt - Sinai; Iran; Iraq; Israel; Jordan; Lebanon; Syria; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan
  China: China - Xinjiang, Xizang
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India; Nepal; Pakistan
  Malesia: Indonesia - Lesser Sunda Islands; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia [n.]
• EUROPE
  East Europe: Ukraine - Krym
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Croatia; Greece [incl. Crete]; Italy [incl. Sardinia, Sicily]
  Southwestern Europe: France [s. & Corsica]; Portugal; Spain [incl. Baleares]
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Guam
  Southwestern Pacific: Solomon Islands; Vanuatu

• possibly naturalized in some regions

• widely cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Ali, S. I. & S. M. H. Jafri, eds. 1976–. Flora of Libya.
• Andrews, F. W. 1950–1956. The flowering plants of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
• Castroviejo, S. et al., eds. 1989–. Flora iberica: plantas vasculares de la Peninsula Iberica e Islas Baleares.
• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Eriksson, O. et al. 1979. Flora of Macaronesia: checklist of vascular plants, ed. 2.
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Fici, S. 2001. Intraspecific variation and evolutionary trends in Capparis spinosa L. (Capparaceae). Pl. Syst. Evol. 228:123–141.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Greuter, W. et al., eds. 1984–. Med-Checklist.
• Higton, R. N. & J. R. Akeroyd. 1991. Variation in Capparis spinosa L. in Europe. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 106:104–112.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Inocencio, C. et al. 2006. A systematic revision of Capparis section Capparis (Capparaceae). Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 93:145.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Jacobs, M. 1965. The genus Capparis (Capparaceae) from the Indus to the Pacific. Blumea 12:416–418.
• Jalas, J. & J. Suominen. 1972–. Atlas florae europaeae.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Magness, J. R. et al. 1971. Food and feed crops of the United States. IR Bull. 1.
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Migahid, A. M. 1978. Flora of Saudi Arabia, ed. 2.
• Miller, A. G. & T. A. Cope. 1996–. Flora of the Arabian Peninsula and Socotra.
• Mouterde, P. 1966–. Nouvelle flore du Liban et de la Syrie.
• Nasir, E. & S. I. Ali, eds. 1970–. Flora of [West] Pakistan.
• Norton, J. et al. 2009. Illustrated checklist of the flora of Qatar.
• Ozenda, P. 1977. Flore du Sahara, ed. 2.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Quézel, P. & S. Santa. 1962–1963. Nouvelle flore de l'Algerie.
• Rechinger, K. H., ed. 1963–. Flora iranica.
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Täckholm, V. 1974. Students' flora of Egypt, ed. 2.
• Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest. 1966–. Flora of Iraq.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1993. Flora europaea, second edition.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Zohary, M. & N. Feinbrun-Dothan. 1966–. Flora palaestina.
• Zohary, M. et al. 1980–. Conspectus florae orientalis.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Capparis spinosa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Capparis spinosa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Capparis spinosa.

Synonyms:

• Capparis inermis Turra [= Capparis spinosa subsp. rupestris]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Capparis orientalis Veill. [= Capparis spinosa subsp. rupestris]
  
• Capparis rupestris Sm. [≡ Capparis spinosa subsp. rupestris]
  

Check other web resources for Capparis spinosa L.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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