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Capparis horrida

Scientific Name
Capparis horrida
Family Name
Capparaceae
Common Names
Local Names
Xay xou kheua (Laos), Wellangiriya (Sri Lanka)
Description
Small tree (Laos)
A climbing shrub with long, divaricate branches, young shoots covered with rufous,scurfy tomentum; leaves simple, alternate, oval-lanceolate or oblong, 4.2-4.5cm long,2-2.4cm broad, acuminate or strongly apiculate, obtuse, rounded at base, tomentosewhen young, afterwards glabrous and shining, petioles 0.4-0.5cm long with a pair ofrecurved. stipular spines at the base; flowers large, bisexual, 3.7cm diameter, supra-axillary, solitary or 2 or 3 together above one another in a vertical line, pedicels 1.2-1.8cm long and tomentose:sepals 4, free, biseriate, nearly equal, concave, rufous,tomentose outside; petals 4, twice as long as sepals, imbricate, white and hairy;stamens numerous, crimson, much longer than petals, inserted at the base of a longgynophore; gynophore about 2.5cm long; ovary superior, ovoid, apiculate, unilocular with 4 parietal placentas, ovules numerous: fruit subglobose, 3.2cm diameter on a thickened stalk, indehiscent, many seeded, seeds embedded in a pulp.Flowers during March and April. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Fever (Laos)
Antl-hidrotics, counter irritant, catsplasm, cholera, stomachic, swellings, boils,syphilis, vomiting, piles (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Pattipola
Remarks
Capparis horrida (IPNI)

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