Author:
Jan Scholten
Book:
Qjurious
Type:
info
Chapter:
3-655.61.00
Capparaceae
Names: Capparaceae.
Genera: Apophyllum, Atamisquea, Bachmannia, Belencita, Borthwickia, Boscia, Buchholzia, Cadaba, Capparaceae, Capparis, Cladostemon, Crataeva, Cristatella, Dactylaena, Dhofaria, Dipterygium, Euadenia, Forchhammeria, Isomeris, Maerua, Morisonia, Neothorelia, Podandrogynous, Poilanedora, Puccionia, Ritchiea, Steriphoma, Stixis, Thilachium, Tirania.
Botany: flowers 4 merous; curved embryo; endosperm ± lacking; vestured pits in vessels; gynophore long; stamens long; 2 carpels; vacuolar and utricular cysternae of endoplasmatic reticulum.
Taxonomy
In the Apg3 classification Capparidaceae is a Family in the Order Brassicales.
In the Plant theory Capparaceae is treated in the same way and placed in Subphase 1.