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Gordon C. Tucker in Flora of North America (vol. 7)
Shrubs or trees (deciduous or evergreen); spines absent (usually without thorns except Atamisquea); glabrous or puberulent with stellate trichomes or lepidote scales (producing glucosinolates). Stems erect or spreading; sparsely to profusely branched. Leaves alternate and distichous or spirally arranged, simple [palmately compound]; venation pinnate; stipules caducous, scalelike or absent; petioles present (pulvinus absent, nectaries present or absent, [petiolar spines present]); blade margins entire. Inflorescences terminal or axillary, usually racemose, sometimes corymbose or flowers solitary; pedunculate; bud scales usually persistent; bracts absent. Pedicels present. Flowers bisexual (sometimes appearing unisexual), actinomorphic or slightly zygomorphic, rotate to crateriform, campanulate, or urceolate; perianth and androecium hypogynous; sepals usually persistent (deciduous in Quadrella incana), 4, distinct; petals 4, attached directly to receptacle, imbricate, distinct, equal; intrastaminal nectary-discs or glands present or absent; stamens 6-250; filaments distinct, glabrous or pubescent; anthers dehiscing by longitudinal slits, pollen shed in single grains, binucleate, commonly tricolporate; pistil 1; ovary 1-carpellate, 2-locular; placentation parietal; ovules anatropous, bitegmic; style 1, (straight, relatively short and thick); stigma 1, capitate, unlobed. Fruits capsules or berries, valvate, elongate, dehiscent or not by 2 lateral valves (stipitate from elongation of gynophore). Seeds 1-38 or many, usually tan to yellowish brown or brown, sometimes green; arillate or not; endosperm scanty or absent, sometimes a persistent perisperm present; cotyledons incumbent to accumbent, (radicle-hypocotyl relatively short and conical). x = 8, 10.
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Atamisquea emarginata
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Bachmannia woodii
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Belencita nemorosa
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Boscia angustifolia
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Boscia foetida
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Boscia mossambicensis
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Boscia oleoides
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Boscia salicifolia
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Boscia senegalensis
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Cadaba aphylla
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Cadaba farinosa
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Cadaba glandulosa
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Calanthea pulcherrima
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Capparicordis crotonoides
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Capparidastrum bonifazianum
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Capparidastrum brasilianum
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Capparidastrum coimbranum
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Capparidastrum cuatrecasanum
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Capparidastrum discolor
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Capparidastrum frondosum
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Capparidastrum grandiflorum
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Capparidastrum humile
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Capparidastrum macrophyllum
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Capparidastrum megalospermum
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Capparidastrum mollicellum
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Capparidastrum osmanthum
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Capparidastrum petiolare
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Capparidastrum quiriguense
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Capparidastrum solum
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Capparis acutifolia
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Capparis amplissima
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Capparis amygdalina
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Capparis angustifolia
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Capparis asperifolia
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Capparis baducca
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Capparis bodinieri
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Capparis calciphila
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Capparis callophylla
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Capparis cartilaginea
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Capparis coccolobifolia
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Capparis copelandii
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Capparis cordifolia
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Capparis corymbosa
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Capparis cuneiformis
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Capparis cynophallophora
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Capparis dasyphylla
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Capparis decidua
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Capparis detonsa
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Capparis dolichopoda
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Capparis erythrocarpos
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Developments of SEINet, Symbiota, and associated specimen databases have been supported by National Science Foundation Grants (DBI 9983132, BRC 0237418, DBI 0743827, DBI 0847966)