''Cadaba'' is a genus of

shrub A shrub (often also called a bush) is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant. Unlike herbaceous plants, shrubs have persistent woody stems above the ground. Shrubs can be either deciduous or evergreen. They are distinguished from trees ...

s in family Capparaceae, with about 30 species. 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.Yves Guinand and Dechassa Lemessa
"Wild-Food Plants in Southern Ethiopia: Reflections on the role of 'famine-foods' at a time of drought"
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Cadaba aphylla ''Cadaba aphylla'' ("Swartstorm") is one of the many species in the genus ''Cadaba''. It is indigenous to southern Africa. Description It grows as a straggly, perennial shrub or small tree, virgate, much-branched, dark green, often with purple ...

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Cadaba farinosa ''Cadaba farinosa'' is a high evergreen shrub or small tree that belongs to the caper family. It has simple ovate leaves with entire margins, zygomorphic, spidery, greenish, yellowish, whitish or pinkish flowers, and is covered in powdery hair ...

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Cadaba fruticosa ''Cadaba fruticosa'' is a species of plant in the family Capparaceae. It is endemic on Indian Subcontinent: Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Indo-China: Myanmar. Its habitat includes the dry parts of the Gangetic plain, down through ...

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Cadaba glandulosa ''Cadaba'' is a genus of shrubs in family Capparaceae, with about 30 species. 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 ...

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Cadaba insularis ''Cadaba insularis'' is a critically endangered shrub in the Capparaceae family endemic to the island of Socotra in Yemen. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, and is threatened by habitat loss Habitat destructio ...

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Cadaba kirkii ''Cadaba'' is a genus of shrubs in family Capparaceae, with about 30 species. 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 ...

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Cadaba natalensis ''Cadaba'' is a genus of shrubs in family Capparaceae, with about 30 species. 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 ...

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Cadaba termitaria ''Cadaba'' is a genus of shrubs in family Capparaceae, with about 30 species. 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 ...

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GRIN Species List''Cadaba'' of Zimbabwe
Brassicales genera Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Brassicales-stub