Cadaba

Life-forms

Classification System: APG IV

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Plantae
Cladus: Angiosperms
Cladus: Eudicots
Cladus: Core eudicots
Cladus: Rosids
Cladus: Eurosids II
Ordo: Brassicales

Familia: Capparaceae
Genus: Cadaba
Species: C. aphylla – C. baccarinii – C. barbigera – C. benguellensis – C. capparoides – C. carneoviridis – C. divaricata – C. farinosa – C. fruticosa – C. gillettii – C. glandulosa – C. heterotricha – C. insularis – C. kassasii – C. kirkii – C. longifolia – C. mirabilis – C. natalensis – C. parvula – C. rotundifolia – C. ruspolii – C. schroeppelii – C. somalensis – C. stenopoda – C. termitaria – C. trifoliata – C. virgata
Source(s) of checklist:
Name

Cadaba Forssk., Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica 67. 1775.

Type species: Cadaba rotundifolia Forssk.

References

Forsskål, P. (†). 1775. Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica. Sive descriptiones plantarum, quas per Aegyptum inferiorem et Arabiam felicem detexit, illustravit Petrus Forskål. Post mortem auctoris edidit Carsten Niebuhr. Ex officina Mölleri, Hauniae [Copenhagen]. DOI: 10.5962/bhl.title.41 BHL Reference page.

Links

Hassler, M. Aug.. Cadaba. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. Aug.. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: Aug. 11 {{{3}}}. Reference page.
Govaerts, R. et al. 2019. Cadaba in Kew Science Plants of the World online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2019 Aug. 11. Reference page.
International Plant Names Index. 2019. Cadaba. Published online. Accessed: Aug. 11 2019.
Tropicos.org 2019. Cadaba. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 11 Aug. 2019.
USDA, ARS, Germplasm Resources Information Network. Cadaba in the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service. Accessed: 09-Oct-10.

Vernacular names

Cadaba is a genus of shrubs in family Capparaceae, with about 30 species.[1] These have simple, alternately set leaves. The zygomorphic flowers, are solitary or stand in small clusters at the end of short side branches. These flowers consist of four sepals, none or four petals with a narrow claw at base and a wider plate at the top, a tube-shaped nectar producing appendix, four or five stamens that are merged for about half their length into a so-called androgynophore, and a gynophore on top of which will develop a cylindrical capsule with one or two cavities that contain many small kindney-shaped seeds, and opens with two valves. The genus name Cadaba is derived from the Arab word "kadhab", a local name for Cadaba rotundifolia. Some species are classified as famine food in southern Ethiopia.[2]

Species include

Cadaba aphylla
Cadaba farinosa
Cadaba fruticosa
Cadaba glandulosa
Cadaba insularis
Cadaba kirkii
Cadaba natalensis
Cadaba termitaria

References

PlantZAfrica.com: Cadaba aphylla
Yves Guinand and Dechassa Lemessa, "Wild-Food Plants in Southern Ethiopia: Reflections on the role of 'famine-foods' at a time of drought" Archived 2010-10-11 at the Wayback Machine UN-OCHA Report, March 2000 (accessed 15 January 2009)