Capparis

Accepted species 143 Documented here 28 Family Capparaceae

Accepted species 143 in this genus

Every accepted species in the genus is listed. A name links to its page when we hold at least three commercially licensed photographs of it. Where we do not, the row shows how many we actually found, which is usually none.

SpeciesAuthority Usable photographsPage
Capparis spinosa L. 334 documented
Capparis arborea (F.Muell.) Maiden 218 documented
Capparis sarmentosa A.Cunn. ex Benth. 148 documented
Capparis sepiaria L. 87 documented
Capparis zeylanica L. 69 documented
Capparis sandwichiana DC. 55 documented
Capparis tomentosa Lam. 47 documented
Capparis decidua (Forssk.) Edgew. 30 documented
Capparis canescens Banks ex DC. 29 documented
Capparis grandis L.f. 29 documented
Capparis sabiifolia Hook.f. & Thomson 25 documented
Capparis cartilaginea Decne. 23 documented
Capparis mitchellii (F.Muell.) Lindl. 21 documented
Capparis brevispina DC. 19 documented
Capparis hereroensis Schinz 18 documented
Capparis lasiantha R.Br. ex DC. 18 documented
Capparis moonii Wight 13 documented
Capparis divaricata Lam. 12 documented
Capparis rotundifolia Rottler 10 documented
Capparis anomala (F.Muell.) Christenh. & Byng 8 documented
Capparis grandiflora Wall. ex Hook.f. & Thomson 7 documented
Capparis diversifolia Wight & Arn. 5 documented
Capparis loranthifolia Lindl. 5 documented
Capparis erythrocarpos Isert 4 documented
Capparis lucida (DC.) Benth. 4 documented
Capparis brassii DC. 3 documented
Capparis formosana Hemsl. 3 documented
Capparis micracantha DC. 3 documented
Capparis rheedei DC. 18 below the evidence gate
Capparis nummularia DC. 1 below the evidence gate
Capparis acutifolia Sweet 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis annamensis (Baker f.) M.Jacobs 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis artensis Montrouz. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis assamica Hook.f. & Thomson 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis bachii Sy, R.K.Choudhary & Joongku Lee 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis batianoffii Guymer 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis beneolens Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis bodinieri H.Lév. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis brachybotrya Hallier f. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis burmanica Collett & Hemsl. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis buwaldae M.Jacobs 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis callophylla Blume 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis cantoniensis Lour. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis cataphyllosa M.Jacobs 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis chingiana B.S.Sun 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis chrysomeia Bojer 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis cinerea M.Jacobs 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis cleghornii Dunn 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis corymbosa Lam. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis cucurbitina King 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis daknongensis Sy, G.C.Tucker, Cornejo & Joongku Lee 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis danielii Murugan, R.Manik., S.P.Nithya, B.Karthik & Arisdason 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis dasyphylla Merr. & F.P.Metcalf 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis diffusa Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis dioica Gilg 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis dongvanensis Sy, B.H.Quang & D.V.Hai 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis echinocarpa Pierre ex Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis erycibe Hallier f. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis fascicularis DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis fengii B.S.Sun 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis flavicans Kurz 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis floribunda Wight 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis florida Fici & Souvann. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis fohaiensis B.S.Sun 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis fusifera Dunn 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis gialaiensis Sy 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis grandidiera Baill. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis henryi Matsum. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis heteracantha DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis hinnamnoensis Souvann. & Fici 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis humistrata (F.Muell.) F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis hypovellerea Gilg & Gilg-Ben. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis incanescens DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis irenae Fici 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis jacobsii Hewson 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis kbangensis Sy & D.V.Hai 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis kebarensis Fici 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis kenaboiensis Julius 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis khuamak Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis klossii Ridl. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis koioides M.Jacobs 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis kollimalayana M.B.Viswan. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis lanceolaris DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis lanceolatifolia Fici, Bouaman. & Souvann. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis laotica Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis lianosa Fici & Souvann. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis lobbiana Turcz. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis longestipitata Heine 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis longgangensis S.L.Mo & X.S.Lee ex Y.S.Huang 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis macleishii (A.G.Mill.) Christenh. & Byng 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis macrantha Souvann., Fici & Lanors. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis masaikai H.Lév. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis mekongensis Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis membranifolia Kurz 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis micrantha A.Rich. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis monantha M.Jacobs 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis montana (Aubl.) Lemée 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis multiflora Hook.f. & Thomson 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis nilgiriensis Subba Rao, Kumari & V.Chandras. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis nobilis (Endl.) F.Muell. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis olacifolia Hook.f. & Thomson 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis ornans F.Muell. ex Benth. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis pachyphylla M.Jacobs 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis parvifolia Fici 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis poggei Pax 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis pranensis (Pierre ex Gagnep.) M.Jacobs 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis pseudocerasifera Hauman 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis pubiflora DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis pubifolia B.S.Sun 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis pyrifolia Lam. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis quiniflora DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis radula Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis ramonensis Danin 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis richardii Baill. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis rigida M.Jacobs 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis roxburghii DC. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis rufidula M.Jacobs 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis scortechinii King 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis shanesiana F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis shevaroyensis Sundararagh. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis siamensis Kurz 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis sikkimensis Kurz 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis srilankensis Sundararagh. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis subsessilis B.S.Sun 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis sunbisiniana M.L.Zhang & G.C.Tucker 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis tagbanuorum Fici 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis tchaourembensis Fici 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis tenera Dalzell 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis thorelii Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis thozetiana (F.Muell.) F.Muell. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis tonkinensis Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis trichocarpa B.S.Sun 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis trinervia Hook.f. & Thomson 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis trisonthiae Srisanga & Chayam. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis umbonata Lindl. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis urophylla F.Chun 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis velutina P.I.Forst. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis versicolor Griff. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis viburnifolia Gagnep. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis viminea Oliv. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis wui B.S.Sun 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis yunnanensis Craib & W.W.Sm. 0 below the evidence gate
Capparis zippeliana Miq. 0 below the evidence gate

Why some species have no pagethe gate

This site is commercial, so it can only publish photographs licensed for commercial use. Roughly three quarters of the photographs on iNaturalist are CC BY-NC, which excludes them. A species needs at least three usable photographs before we will build it a page, because a page with one picture and no traits tells you nothing you could not get from a search result, and generating hundreds of thousands of those is precisely the practice that got the previous version of this site deleted.

So the species above without a link are not errors and they are not omissions. They are real, accepted plants that we cannot yet document to the standard we hold ourselves to, and the count in the photographs column is exactly how far short we fall.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. Accepted names, authorities, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. Photograph counts, restricted to CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA. Retrieved 2026-06-27.