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.
TaxonomyIn 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.