Derivation of specific name
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fourni par Flora of Zimbabwe
sepiaria: hedge-forming;
subglabra: almost without hairs, possibly to referring to the sepals.
- licence
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- droit d’auteur
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- citation bibliographique
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Capparis sepiaria L.
var. subglabra (Oliv.) DeWolf Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=124450
- auteur
- Mark Hyde
- auteur
- Bart Wursten
- auteur
- Petra Ballings
Description
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fourni par Flora of Zimbabwe
Scrambling shrub, armed with sharp, paired, hooked thorns. Young stems greenish with short hairs, mostly hairless when older. Leaves usually alternate, sometimes clustered on dwarf lateral shoots, broadly elliptic, 1.5-4.5 cm, sparsely hairy or hairless; apex rounded, often notched; margins entire. Flowers in clusters on short lateral branchlets, white or cream, c.
1.5 cm in diameter. Fruit spherical, 6-15 mm in diameter, fleshy, purple-black when ripe. Stalk-like gynophore 12-15 mm long.
- licence
- cc-by-nc
- droit d’auteur
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- citation bibliographique
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Capparis sepiaria L.
var. subglabra (Oliv.) DeWolf Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=124450
- auteur
- Mark Hyde
- auteur
- Bart Wursten
- auteur
- Petra Ballings
Insects whose larvae eat this plant species
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fourni par Flora of Zimbabwe
Colotis antevippe gavisa (Red tip)
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- cc-by-nc
- droit d’auteur
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- citation bibliographique
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Capparis sepiaria L.
var. subglabra (Oliv.) DeWolf Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=124450
- auteur
- Mark Hyde
- auteur
- Bart Wursten
- auteur
- Petra Ballings
Worldwide distribution
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fourni par Flora of Zimbabwe
Angola, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, just entering ne South Africa. Also in India and Sri Lanka.
- licence
- cc-by-nc
- droit d’auteur
- Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten and Petra Ballings
- citation bibliographique
- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Capparis sepiaria L.
var. subglabra (Oliv.) DeWolf Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=124450
- auteur
- Mark Hyde
- auteur
- Bart Wursten
- auteur
- Petra Ballings
