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straight; petioles short, 0.5–1 cm. Flower buds acute; 1b. Fruit rounded; twigs yellow green to gray-white;
floral pedicels thick and long, 4.5–6.5 cm; flowers mature leaves obovate to ovate-rounded, 0.7–1 3
slightly zygomorphic; abaxial (odd) sepal slightly 0.6–1 cm; pubescence dense .... .........
.... ........ c. C. parviflora subsp. sphaerocarpa
galeate, 1.2–1.5 cm long, 0.5–0.7 cm deep; stamens
30 to 80, anthers 2–3 mm, with round apices. Fruit Distribution. Figure 5. This Capparis species
obovate, pulp yellow; ripe seeds dark brown, 2–2.2 3 shows a geographical pattern of variation.
2.2–2.4 3 1.6–1.8 mm.
7a. Capparis parviflora Boiss. subsp. parviflora
Phenology. Flowering from (September)January to
March. Capparis murrayana Graham, Cat. Pl. Bombay: 9. 1839.
Distribution and habitat. Saharo–Arabian Region. TYPE: [India] ‘‘On veins of trap rock in the bottom of
ravines at Mahableshwur [Mahabaleshwar], rare; at
North Africa [Algeria, Chad]. On rock crevices, from
Loghur (Sir C. Macolm.) - about Hurrychunderjee (Dr.
1000 to 2000 m. Gibson)’’ (not seen).
The Capparis ovata populations of the Central
Shrub procumbent, up to 75 cm high; twigs straight,
Sahara mountains show distinct retrorse stipules (as
up to 2 m long, light green or yellowish green;
most species in section Capparis) in contrast to C.
internodes 0.5–1.5 cm; stipules somewhat curved,
ovata populations of North Algeria and Morocco which
retrorse, not decurrent, golden yellow, contrasting
have mostly antrorse, sometimes spreading, not
decurrent, sometimes very small or early-falling with the twigs, 0.3–0.5 cm long, 0.1–0.2 cm wide at
the base. Leaves ovate-rounded, 0.5–2 3 0.5–2 cm,
stipules. The type of stipules is a character very
herbaceous; indument variable from dense to lax,
distinct and constant. The leaves are narrower and the
trichomes thin and long, 20–25 3 300–900 mm;
floral pedicels are longer in the Central Sahara
leaf veins not prominent; base acute to tapering,
specimens. This led us to distinguish this new
apices rounded or acute; mucro very small, 0.1–
subspecies, that is subordinated to C. ovata. Other-
0.5 mm, straight; petioles very short, 0.3–0.5 cm.
wise it has some likeness to C. cartilaginea Decne.,
which is also present in the area, but the strongly Flower buds rounded or slightly acute; floral
pedicels slender, short, 1.5–2.5 cm; flowers slightly
zygomorphic flowers of the latter species (which we
zygomorphic; abaxial (odd) sepal slightly galeate, 1.2–
included in another section) are not found in C. ovata
1.4 cm long, 0.5–0.6 cm deep; stamens 30 to 80,
subsp. myrtifolia.
anthers 1.3–1.5 mm, with round apices. Fruit oblong,
Paratypes. ALGERIA. Darmouilly, W of Tamanrasset, pulp red; ripe seeds brown, 2–2.2 3 1.8–2 3 1.6–
Chipp 28 (K); Tamanrasset, Chipp 28 (P). CHAD. Aouzi, 1.9 mm.
Tibesti, Dalloni s.n. (P); Ennerdi, Tibesti, Dalloni s.n. (P);
Gozou, Ennerdi, St. Serole 57 (P); Gorges L’Oudingueur, Phenology. Flowering and fruiting from (April)May
Tibesti, Brookt 52 (K); Enneri Gousa, Tibesti, 1000 m,
Guichard s.n. (P). to September.
Distribution and habitat. Irano-Turanian and
Saharo-Arabian Regions, extending to the Sudano-
7. Capparis parviflora Boiss., Diagn. Pl. Orient.,
Zambezian Region. Middle East and Central Asia
Ser. I, Vol. I: 4. 1843. Capparis spinosa var.
[Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia,
parviflora (Boiss.) Boiss., Fl. Orient. Vol. I: 420.
Turkmenistan]. Cliffs, stony places, and slopes, in
1867. Capparis leucophylla DC. var. parviflora
semi-deserts; from 650 to 1850 m.
(Boiss.) Zohary, Bull. Res. Council Israel 8 D:
A holotype was not designated for Capparis
59. 1960. TYPE: [Iran] ‘‘Hab. in Persia australi. murrayana Graham (1839). The John Graham Her-
Aucher pl. exs. Nu 4191 et 4191 A’’ (lectotype,
barium has not been found.
designated here, G!, G8503).
Selected specimens examined. AFGHANISTAN. Herat,
Hedge & Lamond s.n. (K); Kandahar Pirzada, Edelberg 2052a
KEY TO THE SUBSPECIES OF CAPPARIS PARVIFLORA IN THE MIDDLE
(C); Kandahar Pirzada, Hedge & Lamond 2052a (C);
EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA
Kajakay, Petersen 452 (E); Kajakay, Hedge & Lamond
1a. Fruit oblong or elliptical; twigs yellow green; 2142 (C); Province of Chakhansur, 2 km to the N of Lashe
mature leaves ovate-rounded, 0.5–2.5 3 0.5– Jowayn, Breckle 4928 (E); Shin Dand, 10 mi. S, Furse s.n.
2 cm, pubescence from dense to almost glabrous . . 2 (K); Zint Gorge, Mam district, 8 June 1958, Chapman 26096
2a. Fruit oblong; mature leaves ovate-rounded, 0.5–2 (K). IRAN. Fars, Kuh-i-Bamus, Schiras, Archibald 2940 (E);
3 0.5–2 cm; pubescence from dense to lax Kuh-e-Hari, A. J. Lee 83 (K); Schiras, Kotschy 309 (E);
..... ......... a. C. parviflora subsp. parviflora Schiras, Hohenacker 309 (C). PAKISTAN. Tando Jan, Jafri
2b. Fruit ellipsoidal; mature leaves ovate-lanceolate, 2406 (E). SAUDI ARABIA. Aflja Well, J. D. Dwyer 13125
rarely obovate, 1–2.5 3 0.7–2 cm; pubescence (RNG); Turayf, Collenette 4495 (K). TURKMENISTAN.
almost glabrous .... . b. C. parviflora subsp. kurdica Ashjabat, s.n. (E).