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Capparis danielii sp. nov.: A. Habit; B: B1. Flowering-twig; B2. Flower bud; B3. Flower; B4. Stamen; B5. Gynophore with ovary; C. Flowers close-up; D: D1. Fruiting-twig; D2. Fruit close-up; E. C.S. of fruit; F. Seeds (Photographs were taken by C. Murugan from live plant in the type locality).
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A new species, Capparis danielii (Capparaceae), is described from the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve, Tamil Nadu, India. This new species was found in the coastal dry evergreen scrubs, and only three individuals were recorded from the type locality. It is very closely allied to C. brevispina and C. divaricata but can easily be distinguished from...
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... and Thilachium Lour. After the treatment in Flore de Madagascar et des Comores (Hadj Moustafa Haddade 1965), little attention has been paid to these genera in the area, apart from the description of two new species of Capparis and Thilachium (Fici 2011(Fici , 2021a, while several studies were carried out during the last decades in southern Asia (Viswanathan 2000; Srisanga & Chayamarit 2004;Sy et al. 2013Sy et al. , 2015Sy et al. , 2016Sy et al. , 2017Sy et al. , 2020Fici et al. 2018Souvannakhoummane et al. 2018Souvannakhoummane et al. , 2020Murugan et al. 2020;Julius 2022), Indonesia (Fici 2012(Fici , 2021b and New Caledonia (Fici 2017). The genus Thilachium includes 15 species of trees or shrubs (with a single herbaceous species), with 1-or 3-foliolate leaves, occurring in eastern Africa, Madagascar and Mauritius along a wide range of habitats (Elffers et al.1964;Thulin 1993;Harvey et al. 1995;POWO 2019; A new species of Thilachium (Capparaceae) from the Analanjirofo Region, Madagascar 2021a). ...
Madagascar is a centre of speciation for the genus Thilachium Lour., which includes several species of small trees and shrubs occurring in a wide range of habitats. A new species of Thilachium, T. latifolium Fici, from the Analanjirofo Region of northeastern Madagascar is here described and illustrated. It is characterised by 1-foliolate leaves, leaf blades widely ovate or elliptic with shortly acuminate or acute apices, flowers in terminal, dense subumbels or corymbs, short pedicels and ellipsoid, ribbed fruit. The new species is related to T. madagascariense Fici, a species recently described from eastern Madagascar, differing in the wider, coriaceous leaves with shorter, mucronulate tip, flowers in terminal, 7–16-flowered subumbels or corymbs, shorter pedicels and longer anthers. The distribution, autecology and affinities of the new species are discussed, its conservation status is assessed, and an updated key is provided for the species of the genus Thilachium known from Madagascar.
... Capparis, Sodada, Monostichocalyx, and Busbeckea. Thereafter, several new species were described under the genus from various parts of the Old World (Srisanga & Chayamarit 2004, Fici 2012, Huang et al. 2013, Thuong et al. 2013, 2015, 2017a,b, 2018, Fici et al. 2020, Murugan et al. 2020. ...
The genus Capparis Linnaeus (1753: 503) belongs to the family Capparaceae and is distributed in tropics and subtropics
of the Old World, comprising 141 species (POWO 2021). Jacobs (1965) studied the genus from Indus to pacific
land and classified it under four formal sections viz. Capparis, Sodada, Monostichocalyx, and Busbeckea. Thereafter,
several new species were described under the genus from various parts of the Old World (Srisanga & Chayamarit 2004,
Fici 2012, Huang et al. 2013, Thuong et al. 2013, 2015, 2017a,b, 2018, 2020, Fici et al. 2020, Murugan et al. 2020).
During our revisionary work on the genus Capparis in India, we collected several specimens from the field and
consulted various herbaria viz. AHMA, ASSAM, BM, BR, BSI, C, CAL, E, G, GH, GM, GU, GUH, HHBG, HZU,
K, KRIB, LE, LINN, M, MH, MO, P, SUK, UPS, and ZMNH. The specimens were critically studied consulting the
protologues, type specimens and relevant literature (Linnaeus 1753, De Candolle 1824, Hooker 1875, Gamble 1957,
Jacobs 1965, Nasir et al. 1972, Matthew 1983, Sundararaghavan 1993, Dassanayake 2017, Maurya et al. 2020). The
scrutiny revealed that four names associated with types of Capparis were not typified following the ICN criteria (Art.
7.10, 7.11 and 9.10).
A new species of Capparis, C. phatadke, is described and illustrated from the Bolikhamxai Province, central Lao PDR. The new species is characterized by lianous habit, brown-reddish indumentum, straight stipular thorns, laminar bracts, large flowers arranged in terminal corymbs or subumbels, long filaments and large ovary. It is so far known from a single locality, where has been observed in mixed deciduous forest and secondary forest in a limestone area. Its ecology and phenology are discussed, and its conservation status is assessed.
The Indochinese Peninsula is a main center of speciation of Capparis, but the taxonomic treatment of the genus is still critical in this area. With regard to Vietnam, a discordant number of species was recorded by different authors during the last century, whereas various new species have been recently described. An updated checklist of the intrageneric taxa occurring in the country is here presented, including a new species from the island of Hon Tre, Khanh Hoa Province. The genus comprises in Vietnam 37 species, 9 subspecies and 3 varieties, all belonging to Capparis sect. Monostichocalyx. The study area, with 10 endemic species, is confirmed as one of the hotspots of the genus. Three lectotypes are also selected. The new species here described and illustrated, C. oxycarpa, is related to C. pranensis, differing in the few-flowered subumbels, narrower sepals, smaller petals, longer filaments and smaller, apiculate fruit; its affinities with related taxa and conservation status are discussed, and data on its ecology and phenology are given.
