family Capparidaceae

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family Capparidaceae - a dilleniid dicot family of the order Rhoeadales that includes: genera Capparis, Cleome, Crateva, and Polanisia caper family, Capparidaceae dilleniid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs order Papaverales, order Rhoeadales, Papaverales, Rhoeadales - an order of dicotyledonous plants Capparis, genus Capparis - tropical or subtropical evergreen shrubs or small trees genus Cleome, Cleome - tropical and subtropical annual or perennial herbs or low shrubs Crateva, genus Crateva - tropical genus of small trees or shrubs genus Polanisia, Polanisia - widely distributed herbs having palmate leaves and creamy white to or pink to magenta flowers with many stamens of unequal length

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