Capparis decidua (Forssk.) Edgew
Diagnostic description:
Scientific Classification
Kingdom: plant
Division: Tracheophyta
Class: Margnoliopsida
Order: Capparales
Family: Capparaceae
Species: Capparis decidua
Distribution: North and Tropical Africa, Palestine, Arabian Peninsula, Iran, Pakistan, NW India. Saudi Arabia: In wadis and lower plains through which there is some flow of water in some years.
Arabic Names : Tandhab; Sodad تندب- تنظب- سداد
Habit: Low to large much branched shrubs or small trees with distinct trunks. Branches intricate, usually leafless, green
Leaves: caducous, linear to linear oblong, up to 25 x 3 mm; stipules spinous.
Flowers: solitary or clustered in the axils of leaf-scars, pedicellate, the pedicels up to 15 mm long.
Perianth: Sepals petaloid, orange to brick red, unequal, 5-8x 3-5 mm, the posterior larger and helmet-shaped, all floccose on the outside when young and prominent white-floccose margined.
Petals: orange to red, puberulous, the upper two larger and lying within the hood formed by the posterior sepal.
Stamens 8-20, up to 15 mm long, the filaments usually same-coloured as the sepals and petals.
Gynophore: 10-15 mm long, like the pedicels longer and thicker in fruit.
Fruit: globose, yellow to scarlet red, 5-15 mm across.
Note: Fruits and buds pickled in some parts of the world.
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