Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Smriti Van, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized
Image: Devendra Bhardwaj · iNaturalist · CC BY-NC 4.0 · Smriti Van, Jaipur, Rajasthan · Resized
- Scientific name
- Capparis decidua
- Hindi name
- कैर
- Family
- Capparaceae, order Brassicales
- Group
- Shrub
- Conservation status
- Least Concern
A leafless-looking desert shrub with scarlet flowers.
- Spot it Green thorny stems, tiny leaves and red-orange flowers.
- Home Deserts and dry scrub of north-west India.
- Food web Flowers and berries feed insects and birds.
- Why it matters Survives drought while feeding insects and birds with flowers and berries, and its roots hold sandy soil.
Read more: Capparis decidua on Wikipedia
Sources and credits
Records and field notes
- JaipurDevendra Bhardwaj photographed its orange-red flowers at Smriti Van, Jaipur, on 9 July 2009. Both photographs here are close views of that flowering.[20]
Sources
- IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (species pages linked on each entry) (database). Global conservation status. Every species page was opened.
- Devendra Bhardwaj. iNaturalist observations and notes, with place and date (inaturalist.org/people/devendrabhardwaj) (field record). The observer's own dated records and notes, with places. Statements in his notes are his own and were not independently checked by KJVF.
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and GBIF species data (family, order, Hindi names, IUCN category) (database). Open biodiversity data. Used for classification, Hindi common names and the IUCN category where one is given.
- Wikidata (Hindi labels for species) (database). Open data, used for Hindi common names.
- Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (opening lines of each species article, CC BY-SA 4.0). The link on each entry goes to the article (reference). Not peer reviewed. Only the opening description is used, and statements about origin or medicinal use are left out.
- Short introductions and key points written with AI help (Google Gemini and Claude) and checked against GBIF where possible (reference). AI-assisted text for general readers. Please check important details before relying on them.
The tag before each record shows the place it was checked for.
