General description :- Herbs, shrubs or trees.
Leaves:- Simple, or arranged in a whorl or cluster of three (ternate) to hand-like (palmate), alternate, stipulate or not; stipules sometimes spinose.
Flowers:- Solitary or in racemes, radially symmetrical (actinomorphic) or more usually zygomorphic, hermaphrodite. Sepals 4. Petals 4. Stamens 6 to many. Ovary 1, superior, on a a stalk (formed by elongation of the receptacle) (gynophore); carpels 2.
Fruit:- A 2-valved, 1-celled (unilocular) capsule, or a berry.
Genus: CAPPARIS
General description:- Shrubs with simple leaves, and usually with spinose stipules.
Flowers:- Solitary, showy, zygomorphic; petals white or pink; stamens numerous.
Fruit:- A berry borne on a long gynophore.
Key features:-
1) Leaves all simple.
2) Flowers solitary.
3) Fruit a berry.