Capparaceae

Capparaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Capparales
Family:	Capparaceae Juss.
genera
See text.

Capparaceae, or the Caper Family, is a family of flowering plants comprised of 28 genera and about 700 species of annual or perennial herbs, subshrubs, shrubs or trees, sometimes climbing, scrambling or rarely lianaceous of worldwide distribution. Capparaceae is closely related to Brassicaceae and the two families are combined under the latter name in the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system.

Genera recognized in Kubitzki system

• Apophyllum F.Muell.
• Atamisquea Miers ex Hook. & Arn.
• Bachmannia Pax
• Belencita H.Karst.
• Boscia Lam.
• Buchholzia Engl.
• Cadaba Forssk.
• Capparis L.
• Cladostemon A.Braun & Vatke
• Cleome L.
• Cleomella DC.
• Crateva L.
• Cristatella Nutt.
• Dactylaena Schrad. ex Schult.f.
• Dhofaria A.G.Mill.
• Dipterygium Decne.
• Euadenia Oliv.
• Haptocarpum Ule
• Isomeris Nutt.
• Maerua Forssk.
• Morisonia L.
• Oxystylis Torr. & Frem.
• Podandrogyne Ducke
• Puccionia Chiov.
• Ritchiea R.Br. ex G.Don
• Steriphoma Spreng.
• Thilachium Lour.
• Wislizenia Engelm.

References

• Kers, L. E. (2003). Capparaceae. In: Kubitzki, K. (Series Editor):The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants, Vol.5: K. Kubitzki & C. Bayer (Volume Editors).Springer-Verlag Berlin, 36-56. ISBN 3-540-42873-9
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