Family: Capparidaceae

Family description:

Herbs, shrubs or trees. Leaves simple, or ternate to palmate, alternate, stipulate or not, stipules sometimes spinose. Flowers solitary or in racemes, actinomorphic or more usually zygomorphic, hermaphrodite. Sepals 4. Petals 4. Stamens 6-many. Ovary single, superior, on a gynophore; carpels 3. Fruit a 2-valved, unilocar capsule, or a berry.